CVE-2016-2446 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVIDIA media driver on Android Nexus 9 devices, allowing a crafted application to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and high attack complexity (AC:H) but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, it has received limited community discussion and media coverage, with only one article from SecurityWeek.
| 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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.