CVE-2016-3886

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

systemui/statusbar/phone/QuickStatusBarHeader.java in the System UI Tuner in Android 7.0 before 2016-09-01 does not prevent tuner changes on the lockscreen, which allows physically proximate attackers to gain privileges by modifying a setting, aka internal bug 30107438.

Affected products

Android: 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92860
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/6ca6cd5a50311d58a1b7bf8fbef3f9aa29eadcd5
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92860
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/6ca6cd5a50311d58a1b7bf8fbef3f9aa29eadcd5

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