CVE-2016-6729

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% 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-264

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30977990. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#977684.

Affected products

Android: through 7.1.0; 7.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94203
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94203
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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