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CVE-2016-2417

EXPLOIT ✓CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 5.32%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is critical, while EPSS rates exploitation at 5.3%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.

Description

media/libmedia/IOMX.cpp in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not initialize a parameter data structure, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory, and consequently bypass an unspecified protection mechanism, via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 26914474.

CVSS 3.0: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 5.32% probability · 93th percentile
Public exploits: 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 11 April 2016
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-264
Affected: google/android
Source: security@android.com

EPSS trend

EPSS moved from 4.1% on 21 September 2026 to 5.3% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-ID	Title	Type	Published	Verified
EDB-39685 source ↗	Google Android - IOMX 'getConfig'/'getParameter' Information Disclosureandroid · Google Security Research	dos	11 April 2016	yes

References

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