Insecure Fingerprint Authentication in Android 6.0.1 and 7.0

CVE-2016-3917 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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