CVE-2011-3918
Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—Exploit
Severity7.8High · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability1.35 %higher than 71% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB
The Zygote process in Android 4.0.3 and earlier accepts fork requests from processes with arbitrary UIDs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot loop) via a crafted application.
CVSS
- Base score
- 7.8
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 1.35 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 71
- Score date
- 10/20/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Published on Exploit-DB · Android Zygote - Socket and Fork Bomb (Denial of Service) (10/14/2013)
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-399
References
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- http://www.ai-lab.it/merlo/publications/DoSAndroid.pdf
- https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/detail?repo=platform--system--core&r=e7fd911fd42b
- http://www.ai-lab.it/merlo/publications/DoSAndroid.pdf
- https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/detail?repo=platform--system--core&r=e7fd911fd42b
Raw JSON (NVD)
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