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CVE-2016-2472

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2472 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. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into installing a crafted application. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability allows for significant impact, including high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, though it requires user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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/2016-06-01.html
PatchVendor Advisory