CVE-2016-2471

CVE-2016-2471 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver affecting Android devices, specifically the Nexus 7 (2013) before the 2016-06-01 security update. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges if a user installs a crafted application. While the attack complexity is low, requiring user interaction, the potential impact includes high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it received limited community discussion and media coverage at the time.