CVE-2016-7991 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, where the "omacp" app fails to properly validate security information in OMACP messages. This allows remote, unsolicited WAP Push SMS messages to be accepted and processed, leading to unauthorized configuration changes. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, resulting in high integrity impact. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a BleepingComputer article highlighting its potential for ransomware attacks.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.