CVE-2016-3875: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

server/wm/WindowManagerService.java in Android 6.x before 2016-09-01 does not enforce the DISALLOW_SAFE_BOOT setting, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and boot to safe mode via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26251884.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 2016-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.