CVE-2016-6718

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% 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 elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Account Manager Service in Android 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to retrieve sensitive information without user interaction. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of user interaction requirements (access to functionality that would normally require either user initiation or user permission.) Android ID: A-30455516.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94175
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94175
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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