CVE-2016-6715: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs 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 allow a local malicious application to record audio without the user's permission. 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-29833954.

Affected products

• Google Android: from 4.0, before 4.4.4 (fixed in 4.4.4); from 5.0, before 5.0.2 (fixed in 5.0.2); from 5.1, before 5.1.1 (fixed in 5.1.1); from 6.0, up to and including 6.0.1; version 7.0 only

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