CVE-2014-7951: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 4.0.4 only

Published 2020-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.