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CVE-2016-5341

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5341 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the GPS component in Android versions prior to December 5, 2016. It allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to cause a denial of service, specifically a delay in GPS signal acquisition, by providing a malicious xtra.bin or xtra2.bin file from a spoofed Qualcomm host. The attack vector is network-based with high attack complexity, and the potential impact is limited to denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 12th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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/2016-12-01.html
PatchVendor Advisory
source.android.com / security/bulletin/pixel/2017-12-01
wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com / 2016/12/05/cve-2016-5341
MitigationThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94689
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry