CVE-2016-3775

CVE-2016-3775 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the kernel filesystem implementation in Android on specific Nexus and Pixel C devices prior to the 2016-07-05 security update. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into installing a crafted application, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSSv3 score is 7.8, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.