CVE-2014-2312: Intel Thermald

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The main function in android_main.cpp in thermald allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid.

Affected products

• Intel Thermald: before 1.8 (fixed in 1.8)

Published 2018-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.