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CVE-2016-6742

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% 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 Synaptics touchscreen driver 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 High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Android ID: A-30799828.

Affected products

• Android: through 7.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94131
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94131
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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