CVE-2017-0388 — An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the External Storage Provider could enable a local secondary user to read data from an external storage SD card inserted by the primary user

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MEDIUM

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the External Storage Provider could enable a local secondary user to read data from an external storage SD card inserted by the primary user

Published Jan 12, 2017

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.16%

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the External Storage Provider could enable a local secondary user to read data from an external storage SD card inserted by the primary user. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications. Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1. Android ID: A-32523490.

Affected products

Vendor Google Inc. Product Android Default
n/a
- Version
  Android-6.0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -
- Version
  Android-6.0.1
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -
- Version
  Android-7.0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -
- Version
  Android-7.1
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Google Inc.

Android

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Android-6.0	affected	-
Android-6.0.1	affected	-
Android-7.0	affected	-
Android-7.1	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.16% 0.00158

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00158

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.16% (0.00158)	4.25th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.16% (0.00158)	5.36th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	12.95th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 25, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	12.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00044)	10.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.26% (0.00258)	2.22th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.26% (0.00258)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95252
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95252		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory