CVE-2016-6772

high

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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40945/

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=958

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94701

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-12

Updated: 2026-06-17

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: 0.01435