CVE-2016-7989
Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—
Severity7.5High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.60 %higher than 48% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, a malformed OTA WAP PUSH SMS containing an OMACP message sent remotely triggers an unhandled ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Samsung's implementation of the WifiServiceImpl class within wifi-service.jar. This causes the Android runtime to continually crash, rendering the device unusable until a factory reset is performed, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.
CVSS
- Base score
- 7.5
- Version
- 3.0
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.60 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 48
- 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)
CWEs
- CWE-254
References
Raw JSON (NVD)
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