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CVE-2016-7991

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% 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-388

Description

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, the "omacp" app ignores security information embedded in the OMACP messages resulting in remote unsolicited WAP Push SMS messages being accepted, parsed, and handled by the device, leading to unauthorized configuration changes, 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/94088
• http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94088

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