CVE-2016-3876

medium
Published 2016-09-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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 Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/91fc934bb2e5ea59929bb2f574de6db9b5100745

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.