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CVE-2016-6710

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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 the download manager in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain access to data that the application does not have access to. Android ID: A-30537115.

Affected products

• Android: from 5.0 before 5.0.2; from 5.1 before 5.1.1; from 6.0 through 6.0.1; 7.0 — fixed in 5.0.2, 5.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Android 5.0.2, 5.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94170
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94170
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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