Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in AOSP Launcher: Unauthorized Shortcut Creation

CVE-2016-6716 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the AOSP Launcher in Android 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could allow a local malicious application to create shortcuts that have elevated privileges without the user's consent. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of user interaction requirements (access to functionality that would normally require either user initiation or user permission). Android ID: A-30778130.

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