CVE-2016-6709
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…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- google_android
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By google_android
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.52% · top 56% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
- Information disclosure
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected Android-6.0
- affected Android-6.0.1
- affected Android-7.0
References (2)
- 94169 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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