An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Bluetooth component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x…

Published 9 y ago 2016-11-25 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.3%

percentile 28%

Public exploits

none known

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Bluetooth component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to pair with any Bluetooth device without user 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-29043989.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.34% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	5.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`
NVD	2.0	4.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N`

Affected products

Google Inc. Android

Classification

Weakness

CWE-275 Permission Issues
CWE-284 Improper Access Control

References

securityfocus.com /bid/94179 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
source.android.com /security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-6719
NVD: CVE-2016-6719

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