CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3889
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Android 6.x before 2016-09-01 and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism by accessing (1) an external tile from a system application, (2) the help feature, or (3) the Settings application during a pre-setup stage, aka internal bug 29194585.
Affected configurations
• google android 6.0
• google android 6.0.1
• 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/92854 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 www.securitytracker.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/e206f02d46ae5e38c74d138b51f6e1637e261abe Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/bd5d5176c74021e8cf4970f93f273ba3023c3d72 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92854 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 www.securitytracker.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/e206f02d46ae5e38c74d138b51f6e1637e261abe Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/bd5d5176c74021e8cf4970f93f273ba3023c3d72 Issue Tracking, Patch