VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6770

low
Published 2017-01-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
3.3

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework API could enable a local malicious application to access system functions beyond its access level. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of restrictions on a constrained process. Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-30202228.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
34%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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