CVE-2016-7988

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-275 CWE-388

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Oct 31, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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