CVE-2016-3918 Path traversal in n/a
Attackers can read arbitrary attachments in the Android Mail app by providing a crafted pathname value, bypassing intended access controls.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-3918?
CVE-2016-3918 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 Oct 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
email/provider/AttachmentProvider.java in AOSP Mail 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 does not ensure that certain values are integers, which allows attackers to read arbitrary attachments via a crafted application that provides a pathname value, aka internal bug 30745403.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3918?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2016-3918?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3918 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2016-3918 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3918 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7fjm-wx2g-r3fx.