CVE-2016-3883

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% 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-284

Description

internal/telephony/SMSDispatcher.java in Telephony 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 does not properly construct warnings about premium SMS messages, which allows attackers to spoof the premium-payment confirmation dialog via a crafted application, aka internal bug 28557603.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+17)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92861
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/telephony/+/b2c89e6f8962dc7aff88cb38aa3ee67d751edda9
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92861
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/telephony/+/b2c89e6f8962dc7aff88cb38aa3ee67d751edda9

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