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CVE-2016-2458

• 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: 2016-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The compose functionality in AOSP Mail in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-05-01 does not properly restrict attachments, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, related to ComposeActivity.java and ComposeActivityEmail.java, aka internal bug 27335139.

Affected products

• Android: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.1.0, 6.0, 6.0.1

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Email/+/2791f0b33b610247ef87278862e66c6045f89693
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/UnifiedEmail/+/a55168330d9326ff2120285763c818733590266a
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Email/+/2791f0b33b610247ef87278862e66c6045f89693
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/UnifiedEmail/+/a55168330d9326ff2120285763c818733590266a

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