CVE-2016-3875

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

server/wm/WindowManagerService.java in Android 6.x before 2016-09-01 does not enforce the DISALLOW_SAFE_BOOT setting, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and boot to safe mode via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26251884.

server/wm/WindowManagerService.java in Android 6.x before 2016-09-01 does not enforce the DISALLOW_SAFE_BOOT setting, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and boot to safe mode via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26251884.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: physical. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-09-11 21:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-13 01:29:00

Affected Software

Google Android 6.0

6.0

Google Android 6.0.1

6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html

Vendor Advisory

92818

1036763

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/69729fa8b13cadbf3173fe1f389fe4f3b7bd0f9c

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