CVE-2016-3889: Google Android

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

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.

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.