CVE-2015-6621 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY48Z and 6.0 before 2015-12-01, allowing a crafted application to gain elevated privileges, such as Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, through a flaw in SystemUI. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 9.3, indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity that could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, though it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and is marked as Inactive on the Hot List.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.