CVE-2016-3888

low

Published 2016-09-11 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

2.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2

2.1

VIR risk

2.1

Description

internal/telephony/SMSDispatcher.java in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 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, and send premium SMS messages during the Setup Wizard provisioning stage, via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 29420123.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

24%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/telephony/+/b8d1aee993dcc565e6576b2f2439a8f5a507cff6

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.