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CVE-2016-8768
Huawei Honor 6, Honor 6 Plus, Honor 7 phones with software versions earlier than 6.9.16 could allow attackers to disable the PXN defense…
High7.8EPSS 0.75%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- huawei
Description
Huawei Honor 6, Honor 6 Plus, Honor 7 phones with software versions earlier than 6.9.16 could allow attackers to disable the PXN defense mechanism by invoking related drive code to crash the system or escalate privilege.
Timeline
ID reserved
By huawei
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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)
- 0.75% · top 45% of all CVEs (9 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.
Weakness
- Privileged Execute-Never (PXN) defense mechanism failure
- CWE-254 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-254 and its CVEs
Affected products
Honor 6,Honor 6 Plus,Honor 7 Versions earlier than 6.9.16
- affected Honor 6,Honor 6 Plus,Honor 7 Versions earlier than 6.9.16
References (2)
- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161026-01-pxn-en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93885 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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)
- 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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2016-8768)Record last updated .