CVE-2016-6771

medium

Published 2017-01-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Telephony 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: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31566390.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

53%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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