What is CVE-2016-6746?

CVE-2016-6746 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-11-25.

How severe is CVE-2016-6746?

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

Information disclosure in Google Android

CVE-2016-6746

An information disclosure vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to access sensitive data without explicit user permission. Android ID: A-30955105. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6746.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-11-25 · 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: 0.004 (27.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 27.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Android
Google Inc. Android — versions Kernel-3.18

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/94209 (vdb-entry)
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6746?: CVE-2016-6746 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-11-25.
How severe is CVE-2016-6746?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.