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CVE-2016-6700

N/A

Published: November 25, 2016 at 04:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorAndroid

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.8%

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libzipfile in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, and 5.1.x before 5.1.1 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30916186.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Android · Google

95%

4.0 4.0.1 4.0.2 4.0.3 4.0.4 4.1 4.1.2 4.2 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.3 4.3.1 4.4 4.4.1 4.4.2 4.4.3 4.4.4 5.0 5.0.1 5.0.2 5.1 5.1.0 5.1.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94159

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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