CVE-2016-3876 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.8