CVE-2016-8421

CVE-2016-8421 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.10 and Kernel-3.18. A local malicious application could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context. Rated as High severity with a CVSS score of 7.0, this vulnerability requires an attacker to first compromise a privileged process, indicating a high attack complexity. Successful exploitation could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. It is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.