CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2016-6679
Medium (5.5) in google android. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that makes a setwpaie ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 29915601 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000913.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 46% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- google:android
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93309
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=d39345f0abc309959d831d09fcbf1619cc0ae0f5
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=f081695446679aa44baa0d00940ea18455eeb4c5
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html