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CVE-2016-10225

37
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10225 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Allwinner H3, A83T, and H8 devices running the 3.4 legacy kernel. An attacker with local access can gain root privileges by writing "rootmydevice" to the /proc/sunxi_debug/sunxi_debug file. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists, suggesting readily available exploit code, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:allwinner:linux-3.4-sunxi:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Allwinner 3.4 Legacy Kernel Local Privilege Escalation · Apr 30, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0395 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

forum.armbian.com / index.php
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
irclog.whitequark.org / linux-sunxi/2016-04-29
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
rapid7.com / db/modules/exploit/multi/local/allwinner_backdoor
ExploitThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/16
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/9
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/93442
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry