01 Record
CVE-2014-7953
Race condition in the bindBackupAgent method in the ActivityManagerService in Android 4.4.4 allows local users with adb shell access to execute arbitrary code or any valid package as system by running
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Race condition in the bindBackupAgent method in the ActivityManagerService in Android 4.4.4 allows local users with adb shell access to execute arbitrary code or any valid package as system by running
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.33% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 26.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-07-07 17:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:03Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-10-07
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f2b4e4e8f661e9c54bc03b45d7249ad4a1e60c20176050460626f8be1ff7a592
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- android.googlesource.comhttps://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a8f6d1b%5E%21/
- www.securityfocus.com20150417 CVE-2014-7953 Android backup agent code executionhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535296/100/1100/threaded
- seclists.org20150417 CVE-2014-7953 Android backup agent code executionhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/52
- www.securityfocus.com74213http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74213