CVE-2016-2502 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Qualcomm USB driver (drivers/usb/gadget/f_serial.c) in Android on Nexus 5X and 6P devices before the 2016-07-05 security update. An attacker can exploit this by providing a large size value in a GSER_IOCTL ioctl call. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability allows for high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring local access and user interaction for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
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