CVE-2014-9887 — drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate certain length values, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28804057 and Qualcomm internal bug CR636633

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HIGH

drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate certain length values, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28804057 and Qualcomm internal bug CR636633

Published Aug 6, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.53%

Description

drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate certain length values, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28804057 and Qualcomm internal bug CR636633.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.53% 0.00530

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00530

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.53% (0.00530)	42.72th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.53% (0.00530)	40.36th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00059)	15.68th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	39.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 26, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	38.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00089)	36.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00954)	36.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 2, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	34.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	32.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	16.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=b1bc773cf61265e0e3871b2e52bd6b3270ffc6c3
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=b1bc773cf61265e0e3871b2e52bd6b3270ffc6c3		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Aug 6, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jun 24, 2016

Link CVE-2014-9887

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-9887

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-9887