CVE-2024-20040: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In wlan firmware, there is a possible out of bounds write due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS08360153 (for MT6XXX chipsets) / WCNCR00363530 (for MT79XX chipsets); Issue ID: MSV-979.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 12.0 only; version 13.0 only; version 14.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 4.19 only
• Linuxfoundation Yocto: version 3.3 only; version 4.0 only
• Openwrt Openwrt: version 19.07.0 only; version 21.02.0 only
• Rdkcentral Rdk-B: version 2022q3 only

Published 2024-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.