CVE-2016-3763

Publication date 11 July 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

net/PacProxySelector.java in the Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) feature in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 does not ensure that URL information is restricted to a scheme, host, and port, which allows remote attackers to discover credentials by operating a server with a PAC script, aka internal bug 27593919.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
android	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
android	Upstream: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/ec2fc50d202d975447211012997fe425496c849c

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 3.3 · Low

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3 · Low
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N