Bypassing Factory Reset Protection in Android Setup Wizard

CVE-2016-0813 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

packages/SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/recents/AlternateRecentsComponent.java in Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G and 6.x before 2016-02-01 does not properly check for device provisioning, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25476219.

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