CVE-2016-3923 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Accessibility services in Android 7.0 before 2016-10-01 mishandle motion events, which allows attackers to conduct touchjacking attacks and consequently gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30647115.

Published: 2016-10-10

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-4936	The Accessibility services in Android 7.0 before 2016-10-01 mishandle motion events, which allows attackers to conduct touchjacking attacks and consequently gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30647115.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00079.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93310
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/5f256310187b4ff2f13a7abb9afed9126facd7bc

History

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Subscriptions

Google Android

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: google_android

Published: 2016-10-10T10:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:10:31.884Z

Reserved: 2016-03-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-3923

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-10-10T10:59:27.167

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-3923

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-284

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