CVE-2016-6772

highpriority · track · 42EPSS 0.028 · 86 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

2.80% (86th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

19 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Wi-Fi could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31856351.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.4–9.3

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v2.09.3criticalAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Csecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.07.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-264US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-40945Google Android - WifiNative::setHotlist Stack Overflowfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (19)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Google Inc. Android≤ Android-6.0.1enisa_euvdEU
Google Inc. Android≤ Android-6.0enisa_euvdEU
Google Inc. Android≤ Android-5.1.1enisa_euvdEU
Google Inc. Android≤ Android-7.0enisa_euvdEU
Google Inc. Android≤ Android-5.0.2enisa_euvdEU
Google Inc Android≤ 7.0fstec_bduRU
Google Inc Android≤ 5.0.2fstec_bduRU
Google Inc Android≤ 6.0.1fstec_bduRU
Google Inc Android≤ 6.0fstec_bduRU
Google Inc Android≤ 5.1.1fstec_bduRU
google android= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 5.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 5.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 5.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 5.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 6.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google android= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-01-12modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

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