CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3887
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
providers/settings/SettingsProvider.java in Android 7.0 before 2016-09-01 does not properly enforce the DISALLOW_CONFIG_VPN setting, which allows attackers to bypass an intended always-on VPN state via a crafted application, aka internal bug 29899712.
Affected configurations
• google android 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92872 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 www.securitytracker.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/335702d106797bce8a88044783fa1fc1d5f751d0 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92872 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 www.securitytracker.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/335702d106797bce8a88044783fa1fc1d5f751d0 Issue Tracking, Patch