First reported by Wired, the attack
requires physical access to the device, is limited to pre-2017 Echoes, and would be difficult to deploy at scale.
Additionally, adb root is only accessible if USB debugging, which is off by default, is turned on, and any sort of root access would still
require physical access to your device.
Not exact matches
It
requires physical access and administrator rights
to ARM and RT
devices and does not compromise encryption protections.»
The post adds that any root
access will
require actual
physical access to the
device.
This particular exploit only worked on
devices made before 2017 and
required the hacker
to have
physical access to the Echo.