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CVE-2016-11040

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.0/5.1) (with USB OTG MyFile2014_L_ESS support) software. There is a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass. The Samsung ID is SVE-2015-5068 (June 2016).

Affected products

• Android: 5.0, 5.1

References

• https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb
• https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

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