importantSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News• 2026-09-16T16:45:58+05:30

Google Addresses High-Severity Pixel Modem Vulnerability with Limited Exploitation Reports

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Google has addressed a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-58704) in Pixel cellular modems, which showed signs of limited targeted exploitation. The U.S. CISA added the flaw to its KEV catalog, emphasizing the need for urgent patching due to its zero-click exploit potential.

Google has disclosed that a high-severity security flaw in its Pixel Cellular Modem has come under exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704 (CVSS score: 8.0), is a privilege escalation flaw.

"In Cellular Modem, there is a possible permission bypass due to a logic error in the code," according to a description of the bug in the NIST National Vulnerability Database

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