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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.2% · top 9.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• Elevation of privilege
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Google Inc. · Android

  • affected Android-6.0
  • affected Android-6.0.1
  • affected Android-7.0

References (5)

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 94164 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 40874 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 01:36 UTC.