CVE-2016-3917 — The fingerprint login feature in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 does not track the user account during the authentication process, which allows physically proximate attackers to authenticate as an arbitrary user by leveraging lockscreen access, aka internal bug 30744668

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The fingerprint login feature in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 does not track the user account during the authentication process, which allows physically proximate attackers to authenticate as an arbitrary user by leveraging lockscreen access, aka internal bug 30744668

Published Oct 10, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.19%

Description

The fingerprint login feature in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 does not track the user account during the authentication process, which allows physically proximate attackers to authenticate as an arbitrary user by leveraging lockscreen access, aka internal bug 30744668.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.19% 0.00189

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00189

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.19% (0.00189)	7.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.19% (0.00189)	8.57th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00065)	17.49th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.05% (0.00052)	22.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 13, 2024	0.05% (0.00052)	20.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.05% (0.00052)	18.73th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93298
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/f5334952131afa835dd3f08601fb3bced7b781cd
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93298		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/f5334952131afa835dd3f08601fb3bced7b781cd		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Oct 10, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Mar 30, 2016

Link CVE-2016-3917

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3917

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-3917