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CVE-2015-8889
The aboot implementation in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 6P devices omits the recovery PIN feature, which…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.55%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The aboot implementation in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 6P devices omits the recovery PIN feature, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors, aka Android internal bug 28822677 and Qualcomm internal bug CR804067.
Timeline
ID reserved
By google_android
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=fa774e023554427ee14d7a49181e9d4afbec035e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 91628 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-8745 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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