Security News > 2019 > October > Researcher releases PoC rooting app that exploits recent Android zero-day

Late last month Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone detailed a zero-day Android privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-2215) and revealed that it is actively being exploited in attacks in the wild. She also provided PoC code that could help researchers check which Android-based devices are vulnerable and which are not. One of those has decided to go further. Achieving “root” through a malicious app “The base PoC left us with a full kernel read/write primitive, essentially … More → The post Researcher releases PoC rooting app that exploits recent Android zero-day appeared first on Help Net Security.
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DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2019-10-11 | CVE-2019-2215 | Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products A use-after-free in binder.c allows an elevation of privilege from an application to the Linux Kernel. | 7.8 |