Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2021-0920

Android Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Android
Product Kernel
Weakness CWE-362, CWE-416

The vulnerability

Android kernel contains a race condition, which allows for a use-after-free vulnerability. Exploitation can allow for privilege escalation.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 13 June 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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