CVE-2016-6179 describes a vulnerability in the WiFi driver of Huawei Honor 6 smartphones running specific older firmware versions, allowing a crafted application to trigger a denial of service or privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and high attack complexity (AC:H) but can lead to significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
>= h60-l01, <= h60-l01c00b850CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_6_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= h60-l02, <= h60-l02c00b850CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_6_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= h60-l03, <= h60-l03c01b850CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_6_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= h60-l11, <= h60-l11c00b850CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_6_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= h60-l12, <= h60-l12c00b850CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_6_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.