CVE-2016-6717
Status: ModifiedHigh (7)—
Severity7High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.65 %higher than 50% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Mediaserver 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 execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires exploitation of a separate vulnerability. Android ID: A-31350239.
CVSS
- Base score
- 7
- Version
- 3.0
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.65 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 50
- Score date
- 10/23/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-264
References
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