VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-6789

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.79%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-01-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA libomx library (libnvomx) could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31251973. References: N-CVE-2016-6789.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-284

Primary references