A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component System UI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 11/07/2016 with Google as Android Security Bulletin - November 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-6708 since 08/11/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 94166†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-87972, VDB-93436, VDB-93466 and VDB-93476. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Google

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• Android

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