What is CVE-2016-6679?

CVE-2016-6679 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-10-10.

How severe is CVE-2016-6679?

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

Information disclosure in Google Android

CVE-2016-6679

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that makes a setwpaie ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 29915601 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000913.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-10-10 · 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:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 44.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Android

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/c… (Patch)
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93309 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/ (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6679?: CVE-2016-6679 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-10-10.
How severe is CVE-2016-6679?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.