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CVE-2016-3865

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X and 9 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 28799389.

Affected products

• Android: through 7.0

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92871
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92871
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763

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