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CVE-2016-6772

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Wi-Fi could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31856351.

Affected products

• Android: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1 (+3)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94701
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=958
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40945/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94701
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=958
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40945/

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