CVE-2016-6707
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
7.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
Exploits
Exploit-DB
- EDB-40874 · remote · android
References
- 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
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/
- 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
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/
CWEs
CWE-264
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.