Privilege Escalation in Google Android - CVE-2016-3921
Published: October 5, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU753
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3921
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local application to obtain elevated privileges on the target system
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input by the Framework Listener service of the affected software. By tricking the victim to follow a malicious link or open a malicious file attackers can compromise a privileged process and cause arbitrary code execution.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will result in privilege escalation on the vulnerable system.Affected software
Google Android
How to mitigate CVE-2016-3921
Update to version 7.1.