CVE-2016-3905 — CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_main.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a SENDACTIONFRAME command, aka Android internal bug 28061823 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1001449

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CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_main.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a SENDACTIONFRAME command, aka Android internal bug 28061823 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1001449

Published Oct 10, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.51%

Description

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_main.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a SENDACTIONFRAME command, aka Android internal bug 28061823 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1001449.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.51% 0.00513

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

EPSS probability 0.00513

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	0.51% (0.00513)	41.53th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.51% (0.00513)	39.39th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00061)	16.41th	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/2016-10-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93328
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=b5112838eb91b71eded4b5ee37338535784e0aef
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93328		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=b5112838eb91b71eded4b5ee37338535784e0aef		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Oct 10, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Mar 30, 2016

Link CVE-2016-3905

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3905

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-3905