Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2017-0386 json

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within th…

published 2017-01-12 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-0740

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1. Android ID: A-32255299.

Patch / fix

  • libnl3 SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 3.2.23-4.7.1
  • libnl-1_1 SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.1.4-6.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:3208-1SUSE-SU-2022:3207-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-0386 updated cvss 7.8

libnl: Privilege escalation due to insufficient data checks in nla_reserve and nla_put

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libnl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libnl, libnl3, libnl3-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libnl, libnl3, libnl3-cli
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Google Inc. Android

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.