What is CVE-2019-1010221?

CVE-2019-1010221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lineageos. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2019-07-23.

How severe is CVE-2019-1010221?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Lineageos

CVE-2019-1010221

LineageOS 16.0 and earlier is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: The property checked by `adb root` can also be set in a normal adb shell session. The component is: adb shell (patches to fix this are at https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_system_core/+/234800, https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_device_lineage_sepolicy/+/234799). The attack vector is: When adb is enabled, and an attacker has physical access, `adb shell setprop service.adb.root 1` allows restarting adb as root.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Lineageos — versions 16.0 and earlier

References

josh@bress.net (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-1010221?: CVE-2019-1010221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lineageos. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2019-07-23.
How severe is CVE-2019-1010221?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.