CVE-2016-2437 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the NVIDIA video driver on Android Nexus 9 devices prior to the 2016-05-01 patch. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into installing a crafted application. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity requiring user interaction. There is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, suggesting no active exploitation. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, with only one mention and one article identified.
| 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.