CVE-2016-5231 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting specific firmware versions of Huawei Mate 8 devices, allowing a crafted application to bypass permission checks and delete user data. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no privileges required (PR:N). While the potential impact is high for confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
nxtCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:mate_8_firmware:nxt:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.