CVE-2016-2434 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVIDIA video driver on Google Nexus 9 devices running Android versions prior to May 1, 2016. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into installing a crafted application. This vulnerability carries a high CVSSv3 score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, but leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or Metasploit modules are available, the vulnerability received some community discussion and media coverage at the time, though it is not currently on the CISA KEV catalog and is considered inactive.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.