CVE-2016-6718 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2016-6718 PUBLISHED

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Account Manager Service in Android 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to retrieve sensitive information without user interaction. 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-30455516.

EPSS 0.05% · 16.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.05%

16.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	android	0, 20150818-1500-0ubuntu2, 20150818-1500-0ubuntu3

Timeline

Nov 8, 2016 CVE Published
Jan 16, 2018 PoC Published
May 28, 2021 PoC Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 19, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 10, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 29, 2022 PoC Published
Sep 1, 2022 EPSS Score
Oct 23, 2022 EPSS Score
Dec 14, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6718 third-party-advisory
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6718 third-party-advisory

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