CVE-2016-2490

CVE-2016-2490 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVIDIA camera driver on Nexus 9 devices running Android versions prior to June 1, 2016. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into installing a specially crafted application. This vulnerability carries a high CVSSv3 score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules available in common frameworks like Metasploit or ExploitDB.