CVE-2016-10274 is a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek touchscreen driver affecting Android devices. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel, potentially leading to a permanent device compromise requiring operating system reflash. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), allowing for high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.1.2CPE 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
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.