CVE-2016-3876

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Android: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92819
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/91fc934bb2e5ea59929bb2f574de6db9b5100745
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92819
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/91fc934bb2e5ea59929bb2f574de6db9b5100745

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