According to a recent Amnesty International investigation, a zero-day exploit created by Cellebrite was used to unlock the Android phone of a 23-year-old youth activist from Serbia.
According to the international non-governmental organization Cellebrite, a sophisticated zero-day exploit chain that targeted Android USB drivers was used to exploit and unlock the Android phone of one student protester. Traces of the exploit were found in a different case in the middle of 2024.
This vulnerability is CVE-2024-53104 (CVSS score: 7.8), which is a case of privilege escalation in the USB Video Class (UVC) driver, a kernel component. In December 2024, a patch for the Linux kernel was made available read more about Amnesty Finds Cellebrite’s Zero-Day Used to Unlock Serbian Activist’s Android Phone.
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