CVE-2015-8893 — app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to cause a denial of service (OS outage or buffer over-read) via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28822690 and Qualcomm internal bug CR822275

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app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to cause a denial of service (OS outage or buffer over-read) via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28822690 and Qualcomm internal bug CR822275

Published Jul 11, 2016

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.36%

Description

app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to cause a denial of service (OS outage or buffer over-read) via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28822690 and Qualcomm internal bug CR822275.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.36% 0.00360

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

EPSS probability 0.00360

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	0.36% (0.00360)	27.37th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.36% (0.00360)	27.57th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.09% (0.00087)	22.79th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.06% (0.00057)	25.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.06% (0.00057)	23.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.06% (0.00057)	21.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (2)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=800255e8bfcc31a02e89460460e3811f225e7a69
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=800255e8bfcc31a02e89460460e3811f225e7a69		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Jul 11, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 31, 2016

Link CVE-2015-8893

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-8893

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-8893