CVE-2016-6724

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Publication date:

25/11/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

A denial of service vulnerability in the Input Manager Service 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 cause the device to continually reboot. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a temporary denial of service that requires a factory reset to fix. Android ID: A-30568284.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 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:N/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

7.10

Severity 2.0

HIGH

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:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2016-6724

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools