What is CVE-2016-4005?

CVE-2016-4005 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Hilink App, classified under Cryptographic Issues. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2016-4005?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Huawei Hilink App

CVE-2016-4005

The Huawei Hilink App application before 3.19.2 for Android does not validate SSL certificates, which allows local users to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, aka HWPSIRT-2016-03008.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

Published 2016-06-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (21.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 21.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Huawei Hilink App

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-310 — Cryptographic Issues

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/86536 (vdb-entry)
www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160419-01-wear-en (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4005?: CVE-2016-4005 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Hilink App, classified under Cryptographic Issues. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2016-4005?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.