CVE-2016-6729

2016-11-2516:00:00

google_android

www.cve.org

AI Score

7.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

23.7%

JSON

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30977990. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#977684.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Android",
    "vendor": "Google Inc.",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Kernel-3.10"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Kernel-3.18"
      }
    ]
  }
]