{"id":232516,"date":"2026-03-04T01:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-confirms-cve-2026-21385-in-qualcomm-android-component-exploited"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:20:05","slug":"google-confirms-cve-2026-21385-in-qualcomm-android-component-exploited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-confirms-cve-2026-21385-in-qualcomm-android-component-exploited","title":{"rendered":"Google Confirms CVE-2026\u201321385 in Qualcomm Android Component Exploited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-confirms-cve-2026-21385-in-qualcomm-android-component-exploited2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are currently no details on how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. However, Google acknowledged in its monthly Android security bulletin that \u201cthere are indications that CVE-2026\u201321385 may be under limited, targeted exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s March 2026 update contains patches for a total of 129 vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in the System component (CVE-2026\u20130006) that could lead to remote code execution without requiring any additional privileges or user interaction. In contrast, Google addressed one Android vulnerability in January 2026 and none last month.<\/p>\n<p>Also patched by Google are multiple critical-rated bugs: a privilege escalation bug in Framework (CVE-2026\u20130047), a denial-of-service (DoS) in System (CVE-2025\u201348631), and seven privilege escalation flaws in Kernel components (CVE-2024\u201343859, CVE-2026\u20130037, CVE-2026\u20130038, CVE-2026\u20130027, CVE-2026\u20130028, CVE-2026\u20130030, and CVE-2026\u20130031).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are currently no details on how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. However, Google acknowledged in its monthly Android security bulletin that \u201cthere are indications that CVE-2026\u201321385 may be under limited, targeted exploitation.\u201d Google\u2019s March 2026 update contains patches for a total of 129 vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in the System [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}