Android Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability (CVE-2021-0920)

A local attacker, with administrative privileges, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, arbitrary modification of data, complete denial of service or system unavailability. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2022-06-13 under CISA BOD 22-01.

This is a Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Android Kernel. In unix_scm_to_skb of af_unix.c, there is a possible use after free bug due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-196926917References: Upstream kernel Exploitation requires local access, higher attack complexity, an administrative account, and no user interaction required.

Probably yes if any of these apply:

CISA added this CVE to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-05-23 based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. Federal agencies required to remediate by 2022-06-13.