CVE-2016-3876

MEDIUM

Android <6.x/7.0 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

providers/settings/SettingsProvider.java in Android 6.x before 2016-09-01 and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the SAFE_BOOT_DISALLOWED protection mechanism and boot to safe mode via the Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool, aka internal bug 29900345.

References (4)

[Vendor Advisory] http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/91fc934bb2e5ea59929bb2f574de6db9b5100745

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92819

Scores

CVSS v3 6.8

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 6.6%

Attack Vector PHYSICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Affected Products (4)

google/android

google/android

google/android

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Sep 11, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026