CVE-2016-6673 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVIDIA camera driver on Android Nexus 9 devices, affecting versions before October 5, 2016. This flaw, identified as internal bug 30204201, allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges through a specially crafted application. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.0CPE 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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