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CVE-2016-6679

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6679 is a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability affecting the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android devices, specifically Nexus 5X and Android One, prior to the 2016-10-05 security update. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious application that makes a setwpaie ioctl call. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to achieve high confidentiality impact (C:H), but does not affect integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
Vendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit
Patch
source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/93309
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry