CVE-2016-2421

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before 5.1.1 and 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26154410.

Affected products

Android: 5.1, 5.1.0, 6.0, 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html

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