PT-2017-1043 · Google · Android+1

Zinuo Han · Published 2017-01-12 · Updated 2017-01-19 · CVE-2016-6762

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions 5.0.2 through 7.0

Description An elevation of privilege issue in the libziparchive library could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. The vulnerability is related to insufficient access control to certain functions.

Recommendations For Android versions 5.0.2 through 7.0, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

BDU:2017-00088

CVE-2016-6762

Affected Products

Android

Libziparchive

References · 11

• 🔥 https://github.com/ele7enxxh/poc-exp/tree/master/CVE-2016-6762 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6762 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6762 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6762 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6762 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6762 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6762 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6762 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00088 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94700 · Note