CVE-2016-6719: 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 Bluetooth component 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 enable a local malicious application to pair with any Bluetooth device without user 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-29043989.

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.