CVE-2016-3853

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Google Play services in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus devices allow local users to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26803208.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92255
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92255

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