CVE-2016-6716
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-11-25 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:36
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@android.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94171Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@android.comhttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Google Inc.Android
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