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CVE-2016-3908

• 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: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Lock Settings Service in Android 6.x before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows attackers to remove a device's PIN or password, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30003944.

Affected products

• Android: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93290
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/96daf7d4893f614714761af2d53dfb93214a32e4
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93290
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/96daf7d4893f614714761af2d53dfb93214a32e4

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