CVE-2015-6637 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the MediaTek misc-sd driver in Android versions prior to 5.1.1 LMY49F and 6.0 before the 2016-01-01 patch. An attacker could exploit this flaw by tricking a user into installing a crafted application, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is considered serious, requiring local access and user interaction for exploitation. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, though it did receive limited media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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