CVE-2016-7988 (GCVE-0-2016-7988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-10-31 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:13
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Summary
On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.[Samsung].android.intent.action.SET_WIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-10-31 00:00
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