CVE-2016-6715 is a moderate-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Android versions 4.x through 7.0, allowing a local malicious application to record audio without user permission. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring user interaction, but resulting in high impact to integrity (unauthorized audio recording). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.0, < 4.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.0, < 5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.1, < 5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.0, <= 6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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