CVE-2016-2425

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% 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-200

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.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+16)

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

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