Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6707

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date November 25, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory