CVE-2016-3914

moderate-risk

Published 2016-10-10

Race condition in providers/telephony/MmsProvider.java in Telephony in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 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 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that modifies a database between two open operations, aka internal bug 30481342.

Do I need to act?

0.10% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Android

Affected Vendors

Google

References (6)

Vendor Advisory http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93300

Issue Tracking https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/TelephonyProvider/+...

Vendor Advisory http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93300

Issue Tracking https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/TelephonyProvider/+...

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 21/34 · High