CVE-2016-6707

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

Google Inc. · Android

CVSS v3.0 NVD

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

4.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 91st percentile

Published

2016-11-25

Updated

2024-08-06

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874

Security advisories

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928
• https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry