CVE-2016-3914

HIGH

Android <4.4.4, <5.0.2, <5.1.1, <2016-10-01 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

Race condition in providers/telephony/MmsProvider.java in Telephony in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that modifies a database between two open operations, aka internal bug 30481342.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/TelephonyProvider/+/3a3a5d145d380deef2d5b7c3150864cd04be397f

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93300

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0042

EPSS Percentile 33.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-362

Status published

Products (23)

google/android 4.0

google/android 4.0.1

google/android 4.0.2

google/android 4.0.3

google/android 4.0.4

google/android 4.1

google/android 4.1.2

google/android 4.2

google/android 4.2.1

google/android 4.2.2

... and 13 more

Published Oct 10, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026