CVE-2015-8937

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-19 Data Handling

Publication date:

06/08/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

drivers/char/diag/diagchar_core.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 6, and 7 (2013) devices mishandles a socket process, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803962 and Qualcomm internal bug CR770548.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical