CVE-2016-2444 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the NVIDIA media driver in Android on Nexus 9 devices, allowing a crafted application to gain elevated privileges. It carries a CVSSv3 score of 7.0 (HIGH), indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity, requiring user interaction, but leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the vulnerability has garnered minimal community discussion and media coverage.
| 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:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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