CVE-2014-9885
Format string vulnerability in drivers/thermal/qpnp-adc-tm.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that provides format string specifiers in a name, aka…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.45%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Format string vulnerability in drivers/thermal/qpnp-adc-tm.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that provides format string specifiers in a name, aka Android internal bug 28769959 and Qualcomm internal bug CR562261.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.45% probability · 39th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- google/android
- Source
- security@android.com
EPSS 0.5% 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://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=a1d5a4cbd5aa8656bc23b40c7cc43941e10f89c3Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=a1d5a4cbd5aa8656bc23b40c7cc43941e10f89c3Issue Tracking, Patch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.