{"id":"CVE-2017-15844","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-15844","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T04:39:09.179Z","title":"In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, while processing the function for writing device values into flash, uninitialized memory can be written to flash.","description":"In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, while processing the function for writing device values into flash, uninitialized memory can be written to flash.","published":"2018-09-18T18:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:08:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"product-security@qualcomm.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["google/android"],"epss":{"score":0.00167,"percentile":0.05899,"date":"2026-10-28","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.17%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=19622514c69e798d91e7908090b3d79dfdb14715","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"product-security@qualcomm.com"},{"url":"https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"product-security@qualcomm.com"},{"url":"https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=19622514c69e798d91e7908090b3d79dfdb14715","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15844","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}