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medium 5.9

CVE-2016-5348 json

The GPS component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 all…

published 2016-10-10 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6299

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.0%
EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The GPS component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, and device hang or reboot) via a large xtra.bin or xtra2.bin file on a spoofed Qualcomm gpsonextra.net or izatcloud.net host, aka internal bug 29555864.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-40502)

Exploit prediction

3.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40502 Google Android - 'gpsOneXtra' Data Files Denial of Service dos, 2016-10-11
  • wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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