CVE-2016-10498 is a critical vulnerability affecting numerous Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile platforms and Android devices with security patch levels before April 5, 2018. It allows an attacker to prematurely stop the DTR (Data Terminal Ready) function, causing the micro kernel to become stuck. This can be triggered remotely via a timing change injected during the RACH (Random Access Channel) procedure. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges for exploitation. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9206_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:mdm9615_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9625_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9635m_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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.