CVE-2016-3886

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

systemui/statusbar/phone/QuickStatusBarHeader.java in the System UI Tuner in Android 7.0 before 2016-09-01 does not prevent tuner changes on the lockscreen, which allows physically proximate attackers to gain privileges by modifying a setting, aka internal bug 30107438.

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/+/6ca6cd5a50311d58a1b7bf8fbef3f9aa29eadcd5

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.