CVE-2016-3900: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cmds/servicemanager/service_manager.c in ServiceManager in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 does not properly restrict service registration, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 29431260.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; …

Published 2016-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.