Unauthenticated Access to Sensitive Information in Android Telephony

Unauthenticated Access to Sensitive Information in Android Telephony

CVE-2016-0831 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The getDeviceIdForPhone function in internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java in Telephony in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 does not check for the READ_PHONE_STATE permission, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25778215.

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