CVE-2018-9466

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 8.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.31 % · percentile 24 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-11-19
Updated: 2025-11-03
Assigner: google_android
NVD status: Modified

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

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-21060
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-9466

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0959 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits NetApp · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0529 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2018-AVI-421 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Google Android · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Google · Android	affected 7 ; affected 8 ; affected 8.1 ; affected nyc-mr1-dev ; affected nyc-mr2-dev

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD