CVE-2014-7951

MediumCVSS 4.6/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Android debug bridge (aka adb) in Android 4.0.4 allows physically proximate attackers with a direct connection to the target Android device to write to arbitrary files owned by system via a .. (dot dot) in the tar archive headers.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.6/10CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 20, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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