CVE-2018-9466

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Nov 19, 2024
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Apr 5, 2018

Description

In the xmlSnprintfElementContent function of valid.c, there is a possible out of bounds write. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege in an unprivileged app with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AndroidGoogle	7Affected 8Affected 8.1Affected nyc-mr1-devAffected nyc-mr2-devAffected

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-09-01
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/

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