CVE-2016-6716

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-6716
  • Assigner
  • security@android.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2016-11-25T16:59:20
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2016-12-06T15:09:11
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-284 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/284.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 7.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94171 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6716
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6716
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:59:51 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 12:10:00 2016-11-25T16:59Z 2016-11-25T16:59:20 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 12:10:00 2016-12-06T15:09:11 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 12:10:01 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated