CVE-2016-10277

high

Published 2017-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Motorola bootloader could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the bootloader. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-33840490.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01

Exploits

Exploit-DB

EDB-42601 · local · android

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
linux-kernel	3.10	affected
linux-kernel	3.18	affected

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98149
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42601/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98149
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42601/

CWEs

CWE-264

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