CVE-2016-3849

CVE-2016-3849 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the ION driver in Android on Pixel C devices prior to the 2016-08-05 security update. An attacker can exploit this flaw by tricking a user into installing a crafted application, which then grants the attacker elevated privileges on the device. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv3 score of 7.8, indicating high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.