CVE-2016-7988

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2016-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-275

Description

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.[Samsung].android.intent.action.SET_WIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.

Affected products

Android: 4.2.2, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.2 (+10)

References

http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081
http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081

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