7.8high
CVE-2016-6758
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Qualcomm media codecs could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code withi…
Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.6%
percentile 76%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Qualcomm media codecs could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-30148882. References: QC-CR#1071731.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.61% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Affected products
- Google Inc. Android
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Technology feeds
- Linux kernel (RSS, critical only)
References
- source.android.com /security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
- securityfocus.com /bid/94677 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2016-6758
- NVD: CVE-2016-6758
vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.