CVE-2016-6724

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-284

Description

A denial of service vulnerability in the Input Manager Service in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 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 cause the device to continually reboot. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a temporary denial of service that requires a factory reset to fix. Android ID: A-30568284.

Affected products

Android: from 4.0 before 4.4.4; 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 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Android 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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