CVE-2018-6597: Alcatel a30 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Alcatel A30 device with a build fingerprint of TCL/5046G/MICKEY6US:7.0/NRD90M/J63:user/release-keys contains a hidden privilege escalation capability to achieve command execution as the root user. They have made modifications that allow a user with physical access to the device to obtain a root shell via ADB. Modifying the read-only properties by an app as the system user creates a UNIX domain socket named factory_test that will execute commands as the root user by processes that have privilege to access it (as per the SELinux rules that the vendor controls).

Affected products

• Alcatel a30 Firmware: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.