CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6704
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Android ID: A-30229821.
Affected configurations
• google android (>= 4.0 < 4.4.4)
• google android (>= 5.0 < 5.0.2)
• google android (>= 5.1 < 5.1.1)
• google android (>= 6.0 <= 6.0.1)
• google android 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Vendor Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Vendor Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Vendor Advisory