CVE-2016-3889

Publication date 11 September 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Android 6.x before 2016-09-01 and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism by accessing (1) an external tile from a system application, (2) the help feature, or (3) the Settings application during a pre-setup stage, aka internal bug 29194585.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
android	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.8 · Medium
Attack vector	Physical
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/e206f02d46ae5e38c74d138b51f6e1637e261abe
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/bd5d5176c74021e8cf4970f93f273ba3023c3d72
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3889