CVE-2017-0517: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek hardware sensor driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: N/A. Android ID: A-32372051. References: M-ALPS02973195.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.1.1

Published 2017-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.