CVE-2016-2449 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Android mediaserver component, specifically within the camera service (Camera3Device.cpp). This flaw, present in Android versions 4.x through 6.x prior to their respective May 2016 security updates, allows a malicious application to gain elevated privileges, such as Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, by failing to validate template IDs. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable. Community discussion and media coverage for this vulnerability are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.