CVE-2016-8467 Privilege escalation in Android

What is CVE-2016-8467?

CVE-2016-8467 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 13 Jan 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the bootloader could enable a local attacker to execute arbitrary modem commands on the device. This issue is rated as High because it is a local permanent denial of service (device interoperability: completely permanent or requiring re-flashing the entire operating system). Product: Android. Versions: N/A. Android ID: A-30308784.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8467?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8467?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8467 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-8467 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8467 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mrqg-m8w4-cprx, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8467.