CVE-2016-2500

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Activity Manager in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-06-01 does not properly terminate process groups, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka internal bug 19285814.

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/2016-06-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/9878bb99b77c3681f0fda116e2964bac26f349c3
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/9878bb99b77c3681f0fda116e2964bac26f349c3

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