CVE-2016-2461

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 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-264

Description

OpenSSLCipher.java in Conscrypt in Android 6.x before 2016-05-01 mishandles resets of the Additional Authenticated Data (AAD) array, which allows attackers to spoof message authentication via unspecified vectors, aka internal bugs 27324690 and 27696681.

Affected products

Android: 6.0, 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/1638945d4ed9403790962ec7abed1b7a232a9ff8
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/50d0447566db4a77d78d592f1c1b5d31096fac8f
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/1638945d4ed9403790962ec7abed1b7a232a9ff8
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/50d0447566db4a77d78d592f1c1b5d31096fac8f

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