CVE-2016-6771: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Telephony could enable a local malicious application to access system functions beyond its access level. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of restrictions on a constrained process. Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31566390.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2017-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.