CVE-2016-7988: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.[Samsung].android.intent.action.SET_WIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 4.2.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.3.1 only; version 4.4 only; version 4.4.1 only; version 4.4.2 only; …

Published 2016-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.