Vulnerability in Google Inc. Android
CVE-2016-10277
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Motorola bootloader could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the bootloader. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-33840490.
EPSS: 0.095 (94.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Google Inc. Android — versions Kernel-3.18, Kernel-3.10
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 3.10, 3.18
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
- alephsecurity/initroot
- leosol/initroot
- R0B1NL1N/linux-kernel-exploitation
- Technoashofficial/kernel-exploitation-linux
- alephsecurity/edlrooter
- geeksniper/reverse-engineering-toolkit
- gencoderr/Zrootoroolt-
- kdn111/linux-kernel-exploitation
- khanhdn111/linux-kernel-exploitation
- khanhdz-06/linux-kernel-exploitation
References
- security@android.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- security@android.com (Technical Description, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@android.com (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-10277?
- CVE-2016-10277 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Inc. Android, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-05-12.
- How severe is CVE-2016-10277?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-10277 known to be exploited?
- 25 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.