CVE-2016-6716

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductGoogle Android
PublishedNov 25, 2016
First seenNov 25, 2016

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
google androidv ≤ 7.0—

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