CVE-2016-6709 (GCVE-0-2016-6709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-25 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:36
VLAI
Summary
An information disclosure vulnerability in Conscrypt and BoringSSL in Android 6.x before 2016-11-01 and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a man-in-the-middle attacker to gain access to sensitive information if a non-standard cipher suite is used by an application. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to access data without permission. Android ID: A-31081987.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Information disclosure
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Inc. Android Affected: Android-6.0
Affected: Android-6.0.1
Affected: Android-7.0
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Date Public
2016-11-01 00:00
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