CVE-2016-3768 — The Qualcomm performance component in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5, 6, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28172137 and Qualcomm internal bug CR1010644

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The Qualcomm performance component in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5, 6, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28172137 and Qualcomm internal bug CR1010644

Published Jul 11, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.41%

Description

The Qualcomm performance component in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5, 6, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28172137 and Qualcomm internal bug CR1010644.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.41% 0.00412

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

EPSS probability 0.00412

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 (11 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.41% (0.00412)	33.06th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.41% (0.00412)	32.62th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00043)	10.25th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.06% (0.00061)	27.91th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 22, 2024	0.06% (0.00061)	25.69th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 23, 2023	0.06% (0.00061)	23.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.05% (0.00049)	16.36th	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-264

References (1)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

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 Mar 30, 2016

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3768

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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