CVE-2016-6709

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability in Conscrypt and BoringSSL in Android 6.x before 2016-11-01 and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a man-in-the-middle attacker to gain access to sensitive information if a non-standard cipher suite is used by an application. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to access data without permission. Android ID: A-31081987.

Affected products

Android: from 6.0 through 6.0.1; 7.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94169
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94169
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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