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CVE-2016-10239

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—
Severity7.8High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.70 %higher than 53% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

In TrustZone access control policy may potentially be bypassed in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel due to improper input validation an integer overflow vulnerability leading to a buffer overflow could potentially occur and a buffer over-read vulnerability could potentially occur.

CVSS

Base score
7.8
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.70 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
53
Score date
10/23/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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