CVE-2016-6707

7.8 highEPSS 4.2%

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in System Server in Android 6.x before 2016-11-01 and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Android ID: A-31350622.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2016-11-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

google:android

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/

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