Vulnerability CVE-2016-6679

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2016-6679 (CCN-117894)

Assigned:

2016-10-04

Published:

2016-10-04

Updated:

2016-12-06

Summary:

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that makes a setwpaie ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 29915601 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000913.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
4.8 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

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

5.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
4.8 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

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

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): None

4.6 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Complete Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): None

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-200

Vulnerability Consequences:

Obtain Information

References:

Source: CCN
Type: Google Web site
Android

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2016-6679

Source: CCN
Type: Android Open Source Project
Android Security BulletinSeptember 2016

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Vendor Advisory
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

Source: BID
Type: Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
93309

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
android-cve20166679-info-disc(117894)

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Patch
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=d39345f0abc309959d831d09fcbf1619cc0ae0f5

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Patch
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=f081695446679aa44baa0d00940ea18455eeb4c5

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version <= 7.0)

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/h:google:nexus_5x:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/h:google:android_one:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

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