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CVE-2016-10288

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10288 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm LED driver affecting Android devices running Linux Kernel 3.18. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context. Rated High with a CVSS score of 7.0, successful exploitation requires compromising a privileged process, making it a high-complexity attack with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no public exploit code available, no evidence of active exploitation, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.0HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0142 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 386 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

googlepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2017-05-01
PatchVendor Advisory