CVE-2016-0812

medium

Published 2016-02-07 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.1

Description

The interceptKeyBeforeDispatching function in policy/src/com/android/internal/policy/impl/PhoneWindowManager.java in Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G and 6.0 before 2016-02-01 does not properly check for setup completion, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25229538.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

61%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.