CVE-2015-0571

high

Published 2016-05-09 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

9.3

VIR risk

7.8

Description

The WLAN (aka Wi-Fi) driver for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not verify authorization for private SET IOCTL calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to wlan_hdd_hostapd.c and wlan_hdd_wext.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
linux-kernel		affected

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691
https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691
https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015

CWEs

CWE-862

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.