CVE-2014-7952 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-7952?

CVE-2014-7952 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Google Android, published on 12 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The backup mechanism in the adb tool in Android might allow attackers to inject additional applications (APKs) and execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to filter application data streams.

Weakness: CWE-74

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7952?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7952?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-7952 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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Is CVE-2014-7952 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7952 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6c52-8fqm-4g2v.