CVE-2016-6771 - Improper Access Control

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Telephony could enable a local malicious application to access system functions beyond its access level. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of restrictions on a constrained process. Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31566390.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Telephony could enable a local malicious application to access system functions beyond its access level. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of restrictions on a constrained process. Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31566390.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Google Android

First reported 8 years ago

2017-01-12 15:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-01-18 02:59:00

Affected Software

Google Android 6.0

6.0

Google Android 6.0.1

6.0.1

Google Android (Nougat) 7.0

7.0

References

94706

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

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