CVE-2016-6707: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in System Server in Android 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 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-31350622.

Affected products

• Google Android: from 6.0, up to and including 6.0.1; version 7.0 only

Published 2016-11-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.