CVE-2016-6729: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30977990. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#977684.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.1.0; version 7.0 only

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