CVE-2017-0493

medium

Published 2017-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability in File-Based Encryption could enable a local malicious attacker to bypass operating system protections for the lock screen. This issue is rated as Moderate due to the possibility of bypassing the lock screen. Product: Android. Versions: 7.0, 7.1.1. Android ID: A-32793550.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-922

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.