CVE-2016-6707

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Android: from 6.0 through 6.0.1; 7.0

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/

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