CVE-2016-6707

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google Inc.	Android	Android-6.0; Android-6.0.1; Android-7.0

References

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

Timeline

Published: Nov 25, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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