CVE-2016-3876
medium
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
6.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
67%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/91fc934bb2e5ea59929bb2f574de6db9b5100745
Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92819
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/91fc934bb2e5ea59929bb2f574de6db9b5100745
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92819
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/91fc934bb2e5ea59929bb2f574de6db9b5100745
CWEs
CWE-264
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.