High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 11, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-17551
CVE-2017-17551
Description
The Backup and Restore feature in Mobotap Dolphin Browser for Android 12.0.2 suffers from an arbitrary file write vulnerability when attempting to restore browser settings from a malicious Dolphin Browser backup file. This arbitrary file write vulnerability allows an attacker to overwrite a specific executable in the Dolphin Browser's data directory with a crafted malicious executable. Every time the Dolphin Browser is launched, it will attempt to run the malicious executable from disk, thus executing the attacker's code.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
1- github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2017-001.mdnvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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