CVE-2015-6621

critical

Published 2015-12-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

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VIR risk

9.3

Description

SystemUI in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY48Z and 6.0 before 2015-12-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 23909438.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2015-12-01.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2015-12-01.html

CWEs

CWE-264

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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.