CVE-2016-3869 — The Broadcom Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, and Pixel C devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29009982 and Broadcom internal bug RB#96070

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The Broadcom Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, and Pixel C devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29009982 and Broadcom internal bug RB#96070

Published Sep 11, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.62%

Description

The Broadcom Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, and Pixel C devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29009982 and Broadcom internal bug RB#96070.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.62% 0.00623

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

EPSS probability 0.00623

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)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.62% (0.00623)	47.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.62% (0.00623)	44.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.13% (0.00134)	30.61th	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/2016-09-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92885
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92885		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Sep 11, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Mar 30, 2016

Link CVE-2016-3869

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3869

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-3869