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CVE-2016-8480

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8480 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment Communicator driver, affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.10 and Kernel-3.18. Rated as High severity (CVSS 7.0), it requires a local malicious application to first compromise a privileged process before it can execute arbitrary code within the kernel. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.0HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0082 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 386 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 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/2017-02-01.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96101
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037798