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7.8high

CVE-2016-67721 exploit

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Wi-Fi could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
2.8%
percentile 87%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Wi-Fi could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31856351.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.80% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-40945 Google Android - WifiNative::setHotlist Stack Overflow · dos · 2016-12-20

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.09.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Google Inc. Android

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

  • bugs.chromium.org /p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=958 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/94701 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • source.android.com /security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/40945/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred

Sources

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