CVE-2016-6716

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2016-11-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

• Android (Google)
• Android (Google Inc.)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94171
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html