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CVE-2017-8281

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.7)—
Severity4.7Medium · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.36 %higher than 29% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a race condition can allow access to already freed memory while querying event status via DCI.

CVSS

Base score
4.7
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.36 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
29
Score date
10/22/2026

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).

Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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