CVE-2016-3876: Google Android

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

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.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 7.0 only

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