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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-11-25 16:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 01:36Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-08-11
- Assigning CNA
- google_android
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e7e5dfdbe9f450e154a1561a88874b5200e6089c915e38eb0dbb3d1151cc52a0
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugs.chromium.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928
- googleprojectzero.blogspot.comhttps://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html
- www.securityfocus.com94164http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164
- www.exploit-db.com40874https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/
- source.android.comhttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- android No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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