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CVE-2016-6720

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6720 is an information disclosure vulnerability in the libstagefright component of Mediaserver, affecting Android versions 4.x through 7.0 prior to their November 2016 security updates. A local malicious application could exploit this to access sensitive data outside its granted permissions. Rated as Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5, the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to achieve high confidentiality impact (C:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0067 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 5,757 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

android.googlesource.com / platform/frameworks/av/+/0f177948ae2640bfe4d70f8e4248e106406b3b0a
Issue TrackingPatch
android.googlesource.com / platform/frameworks/av/+/2c75e1c3b98e4e94f50c63e2b7694be5f948477c
Issue TrackingPatch
android.googlesource.com / platform/frameworks/av/+/640b04121d7cd2cac90e2f7c82b97fce05f074a5
Issue TrackingPatch
android.googlesource.com / platform/frameworks/av/+/7c88b498fda1c2b608a9dd73960a2fd4d7b7e3f7
Issue TrackingPatch
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94143
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry