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CVE-2016-10481

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10481 is a critical vulnerability affecting Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Wear platforms, where an unhandled NULL virtual channel handle in the WLAN firmware can lead to an assert when receiving a specific ioctl in a not-associated state. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9607_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9635m_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9640_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9650_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_210_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2018-04-01
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/103671
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry