CVE-2016-6679: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that makes a setwpaie ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 29915601 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000913.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.0

Published 2016-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.