CVE-2016-6706: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver in Android 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 High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Android ID: A-31385713.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.0

Published 2016-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.