VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2014-7953

HIGH 7.0EPSS 0.33%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.33%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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 "pm install" with the target apk, and simultaneously running a crafted script to process logcat's output looking for a dexopt line, which once found should execute bindBackupAgent with the uid member of the ApplicationInfo parameter set to 1000.

CVSS 3.0: 7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.33% probability · 26th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-362
Affected: google/android
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 0.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/52Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535296/100/1100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74213Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a8f6d1b%5E%21/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/52Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535296/100/1100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74213Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a8f6d1b%5E%21/

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.