CVE-2016-6706

high

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver in Android 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-31385713.

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/1d4feebdb85db46e138530f360d9ff2490e14353

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94134

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-13

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00127