{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3917","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:45:44Z","published":"2016-10-10T10:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-3917"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3917"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/f5334952131afa835dd3f08601fb3bced7b781cd"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3917"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"android","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160330-0939-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["20150818-1500-0ubuntu2","20150818-1500-0ubuntu3","20160307-0742-0ubuntu3","20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"android","binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"},{"binary_name":"android-copyright","binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"},{"binary_name":"android-emulator","binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"},{"binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"ubuntu-emulator-images"},{"binary_name":"ubuntu-emulator-runtime","binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3917.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}