CVE-2016-3761 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3761?

CVE-2016-3761 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Jul 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NfcService.java in NFC in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows attackers to obtain sensitive foreground-application information via a crafted background application, aka internal bug 28300969.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3761?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3761?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3761 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-3761 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3761 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rmgw-hqw2-j842, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3761.