CVE-2016-6707 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928 https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8