CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-6762

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libziparchive library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability poses a risk that malicious software could gain access to sensitive system resources, potentially leading to serious security breaches in the Android system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor applications running on the system for potential threats.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libziparchive library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31251826.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS