CVE-2016-2425
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
mail/compose/ComposeActivity.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, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 supports file:///data attachments, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka internal bugs 7154234 and 26989185.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/UnifiedEmail/+/0d9dfd649bae9c181e3afc5d571903f1eb5dc46f
- https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=199888
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/UnifiedEmail/+/0d9dfd649bae9c181e3afc5d571903f1eb5dc46f
- https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=199888
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.