CVE-2016-3876

Published: 11 September 2016

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
android Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was ignored [abandoned])
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored (abandoned)
	yakkety	Ignored (end of life)
	zesty	Ignored (end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.8
Attack vector	Physical
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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