CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6715

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-11-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-11-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-275, CWE-284

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs 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 allow a local malicious application to record audio without the user's permission. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of user interaction requirements (access to functionality that would normally require either user initiation or user permission.) Android ID: A-29833954.

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)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References