Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6716

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the AOSP Launcher in Android 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could allow a local malicious application to create shortcuts that have elevated privileges without the user's consent. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of user interaction requirements (access to functionality that would normally require either user initiation or user permission). Android ID: A-30778130.
Published Date November 25, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory