CVE-2017-0620: 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 Qualcomm Secure Channel Manager 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: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-35401052. References: QC-CR#1081711.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.1.2
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 3.10 only; version 3.18 only

Published 2017-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.