CVE-2016-6715

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-275 Permission Issues

Publication date:

25/11/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs 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 allow a local malicious application to record audio without the user&#39;s permission. 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-29833954.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:google:android::::::::	4.0 (including)	4.4.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:google:android::::::::	5.0 (including)	5.0.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:google:android::::::::	5.1 (including)	5.1.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:google:android::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.0:::::::*

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CVE-2016-6715

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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