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CVE-2016-6707

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 4%

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

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

Android· Google
95%
6.0 ≤ v ≤ 6.0.16.06.0.17.0

Remediation

No guide yet

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

Patch and advisory references

References (5)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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