CVE-2016-7988

Published: Oct 31, 2016Modified: May 6, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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 (16)

Products: Google: Android

Google

1 product

Android

Configuration A

16 vulnerable · 5 platform

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Google Android	Version 4.2.2
Google Android	Version 4.3.1
Google Android	Version 4.3
Google Android	Version 4.4.1
Google Android	Version 4.4.2
Google Android	Version 4.4.3
Google Android	Version 4.4.4
Google Android	Version 4.4
Google Android	Version 5.0.1
Google Android	Version 5.0.2
Google Android	Version 5.0
Google Android	Version 5.1.0
Google Android	Version 5.1.1
Google Android	Version 5.1
Google Android	Version 6.0.1
Google Android	Version 6.0

Running on/with	Platform Versions
Samsung Galaxy S4	All versions
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini	All versions
Samsung Galaxy S5	All versions
Samsung Galaxy S6	All versions
Samsung Galaxy S7	All versions