CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8423
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader 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. Product: Android. Versions: N/A. Android ID: A-31399736. References: QC-CR#1000546.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 7.1.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95241 www.securityfocus.com
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95241 www.securityfocus.com
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html Vendor Advisory