CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6707
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 System Server in Android 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-31350622.
Affected configurations
• google android (>= 6.0 <= 6.0.1)
• google android 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928 Third Party Advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928 Third Party Advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry