diff --git a/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.test.ts b/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.test.ts
index d2a32a8550..bd93598a99 100644
--- a/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.test.ts
+++ b/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.test.ts
@@ -168,6 +168,47 @@ describe("ADB device states", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it.each([
+    [
+      "without a reason",
+      "no permissions; see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html]",
+    ],
+    [
+      "with a reason",
+      "no permissions (user alice is not in the plugdev group); see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html]",
+    ],
+  ])("parses adb's no-permissions help text %s", (_name, stateText) => {
+    const { devices, unparsedLines } = parseAdbDevicesOutput(
+      [
+        "List of devices attached",
+        `07ef9c2a               ${stateText} usb:1-1 transport_id:4`,
+        "emulator-5554          device product:sdk model:sdk device:emu transport_id:1",
+        "",
+      ].join("\n"),
+    );
+    expect(unparsedLines).toEqual({ sample: [], total: 0 });
+    expect(devices.map(({ serial, state }) => [serial, state])).toEqual([
+      ["07ef9c2a", "no permissions"],
+      ["emulator-5554", "device"],
+    ]);
+    expect(devices[0]).toMatchObject({
+      transport: "usb",
+      product: null,
+      model: null,
+      device: null,
+      transport_id: 4,
+      kind: "physical",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("rejects a semicolon after any state other than no permissions", () => {
+    const { devices, unparsedLines } = parseAdbDevicesOutput(
+      "serial-bad-device device; see [url] transport_id:1\n",
+    );
+    expect(devices).toEqual([]);
+    expect(unparsedLines.total).toBe(1);
+  });
+
   it("returns unrecognized lines instead of dropping them", () => {
     const output = [
       "List of devices attached",
diff --git a/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.ts b/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.ts
index 4892e2860f..2dfda6e0b3 100644
--- a/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.ts
+++ b/src/adb/AdbDeviceOutput.ts
@@ -97,7 +97,14 @@ export const parseAdbDevicesOutput = (
       if (remainder === undefined || !remainder.startsWith(candidate))
         return false;
       const next = remainder[candidate.length];
-      return next === undefined || /\s/u.test(next);
+      // adb prints no-permissions as `no permissions[ (reason)]; see [URL]` and
+      // omits the reason on a host where it finds no udev problem to name,
+      // such as one without a plugdev group, so `;` can follow it directly.
+      return (
+        next === undefined ||
+        /\s/u.test(next) ||
+        (candidate === "no permissions" && next === ";")
+      );
     });
     if (match === null || state === undefined) {
       if (rawLine.trim() !== "") unparsed.add(rawLine);
diff --git a/src/adb/AdbProvider.test.ts b/src/adb/AdbProvider.test.ts
index 4c4aed2f87..40bc2951fc 100644
--- a/src/adb/AdbProvider.test.ts
+++ b/src/adb/AdbProvider.test.ts
@@ -239,6 +239,36 @@ fi`,
   expect(result.error.message).toContain(malformedLine);
 });
 
+it("lists a USB device adb has no permission to open alongside online devices", async () => {
+  const { binary } = await writeAdbStub(
+    () => `if [ "$1" = "version" ]; then ${VERSION_BLOCK}; exit 0; fi
+if [ "$1" = "devices" ]; then
+  printf 'List of devices attached\\n'
+  printf '07ef9c2a               no permissions; see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html] usb:1-1 transport_id:4\\n'
+  printf 'emulator-5554          device transport_id:1\\n'
+  exit 0
+fi`,
+  );
+  const result = await evidenceResult(providerOver(binary), {
+    operation: "list_adb_devices",
+    input: {},
+  });
+  expect(result.devices).toEqual([
+    {
+      serial: "07ef9c2a",
+      state: "no permissions",
+      transport: "usb",
+      product: null,
+      model: null,
+      device: null,
+      transport_id: 4,
+      kind: "physical",
+      kind_basis: "usb_transport",
+    },
+    expect.objectContaining({ serial: "emulator-5554", state: "device" }),
+  ]);
+});
+
 it("lists rescue and detached transports alongside online devices", async () => {
   const { binary } = await writeAdbStub(
     () => `if [ "$1" = "version" ]; then ${VERSION_BLOCK}; exit 0; fi