CVE-2014-3153

CRITICALNVD 7.89.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-05-25), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 37%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · Metasploit · epss top5pct · public exploitExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

The futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not ensure that calls have two different futex addresses, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted FUTEX_REQUEUE command that facilitates unsafe waiter modification.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0(high)
EG Risk
81(Attend)
EG Risk 81/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS PROB
37%
EPSS %ILE
98%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

June 7, 2014

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated May 19, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2014-3039

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3039.html
generic

linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2014-3038

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3038.html
generic

linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2014-3037

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3037.html
generic

linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2014-0771

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0771.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2014-3153(4)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(15)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-image-2.6.32-61-versatile (2.6.32-61.124) @ lucid2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-3.11.0-23-generic-lpae (3.11.0-23.40) @ saucy2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-3.13.0-30-generic-lpae (3.13.0-30.54~precise2) @ precise2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-extra-3.13.0-29-generic (3.13.0-29.53) @ trusty2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-3.11.0-23-generic-lpae (3.11.0-23.40~precise1) @ precise2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-3.2.0-64-generic-pae (3.2.0-64.97) @ precise2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-2.6.32-365-ec2 (2.6.32-365.79) @ lucid2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-3.8.0-42-generic (3.8.0-42.62~precise1) @ precise2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-3.5.0-51-generic (3.5.0-51.77~precise1) @ precise2026-07-26ubuntu
ubuntulinux-image-3.2.0-1449-omap4 (3.2.0-1449.68) @ precise2026-07-26ubuntu
redhatkernel-rt-0:3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt2014-07-22redhat
redhatkernel-0:2.6.32-358.46.1.el62014-07-17redhat
redhatkernel-0:2.6.32-220.52.1.el62014-06-26redhat
redhatkernel-0:3.10.0-123.4.2.el72014-06-24redhat
redhatkernel-0:2.6.32-431.20.3.el62014-06-19redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(11)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 64× in last 7d / 368× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 767 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-27 07:38 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-07-27 07:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-27 03:30 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-07-27 03:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-07-26 23:23 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-07-26 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-07-26 19:14 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-07-26 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-26 15:05 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-07-26 15:05 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-26 15:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-07-26 14:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-07-26 10:56 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-07-26 10:56 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-07-26 10:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-07-26 06:49 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-07-26 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-07-26 02:42 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-07-26 02:42 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-07-26 02:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-07-24 14:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-07-23 14:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-07-23 01:12 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-07-23 00:16 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-07-22 21:58 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-07-22 21:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-07-22 21:54 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-22 19:40 UTCCISA KEV update
  4. 2026-07-22 17:52 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-07-22 17:52 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-07-22 17:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-07-22 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-07-22 13:44 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-07-22 13:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-07-22 09:36 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-22 09:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-07-22 05:29 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-07-22 05:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-07-22 01:22 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-07-22 01:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-07-21 20:35 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-07-21 20:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-07-21 16:26 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-07-21 16:26 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-07-21 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-07-21 15:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-07-21 15:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-07-21 14:37 UTCCISA KEV update
  24. 2026-07-21 12:19 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-07-21 12:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-07-21 08:11 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-07-21 08:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-07-21 04:04 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-07-21 04:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-07-20 23:56 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-07-20 23:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-07-20 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-07-20 19:49 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-07-20 19:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-07-20 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  36. 2026-07-20 15:42 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-07-20 15:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-07-20 11:36 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-07-20 11:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-07-20 07:28 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-07-20 07:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-07-20 03:21 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-07-20 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-07-19 23:13 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-07-19 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-07-19 19:07 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-07-19 19:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-07-19 15:00 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-07-19 15:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-07-19 10:53 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-07-19 10:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-07-19 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-07-19 06:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  54. 2026-07-19 02:39 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-07-19 02:39 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-07-19 02:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-07-19 02:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  58. 2026-07-19 02:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  59. 2026-07-18 22:32 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-07-18 22:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-07-18 18:26 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-07-18 18:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-07-18 14:18 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-07-18 14:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-07-18 10:11 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-07-18 10:11 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-07-18 10:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-07-18 10:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  69. 2026-07-18 06:04 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-07-18 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-07-18 01:56 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-07-18 01:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-07-17 21:49 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-07-17 21:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-07-17 17:42 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(9 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (7 GitHub PoCs) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoCelongl/CVE-2014-3153
    First seen Oct 31, 2020

    Exploiting CVE-2014-3153, AKA Towelroot.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCdangtunguyen/TowelRoot
    First seen Sep 27, 2018

    Gain root privilege by exploiting CVE-2014-3153 vulnerability

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCzerodavinci/CVE-2014-3153-exploit
    First seen Nov 8, 2015

    My exploit for kernel exploitation

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoClieanu/CVE-2014-3153
    First seen Jan 12, 2015

    cve2014-3153 exploit for ubuntu x86

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-35370
    First seen Nov 25, 2014

    Linux Kernel 3.14.5 (CentOS 7 / RHEL) - 'libfutex' Local Privilege Escalation

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCgeekben/towelroot
    First seen Sep 20, 2014

    Research of CVE-2014-3153 and its famous exploit towelroot on x86

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCandroid-rooting-tools/libfutex_exploit
    First seen Sep 13, 2014

    CVE-2014-3153 exploit

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCtimwr/CVE-2014-3153
    First seen Jul 24, 2014

    CVE-2014-3153 aka towelroot

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/android/local/futex_requeue✓ verified
    First seen May 3, 2014

    Android 'Towelroot' Futex Requeue Kernel Exploit

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2014-3153?
CVE-2014-3153 is a critical vulnerability published on June 7, 2014. The futexrequeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not ensure that calls have two different futex addresses, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted FUTEXREQUEUE command that facilitates unsafe waiter modification.
When was CVE-2014-3153 disclosed?
CVE-2014-3153 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 7, 2014, with the most recent update on April 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2014-3153 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2014-3153 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 25, 2022, affecting Linux Kernel. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2014-3153?
CVE-2014-3153 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0.
Which products are affected by CVE-2014-3153?
CVE-2014-3153 affects Linux Kernel. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2014-3153?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2014-3153, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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