CVE-2016-10456 Command injection in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear

Critical 9.8 Published Updated

An attacker can execute arbitrary system commands via the radish utility on Qualcomm Snapdragon devices by providing an invalid interface name.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2016-10456?

CVE-2016-10456 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, published on 18 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9615, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 600, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, and SDX20, if radish is executed with an interface name set to an invalid interface name, an arbitrary command of 15 characters or less may be executed as a system call.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10456?

It affects 30 products.

Products include Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9607 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9615 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9635m Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9640 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9650 Firmware and 24 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10456?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-10456 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2016-10456 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10456 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-h2r4-gxx2-f826.

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