Bypassing Factory Reset Protection in Android Telephony

CVE-2016-2423 · MEDIUM Severity

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

server/telecom/CallsManager.java in Telephony in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly consider whether a device is provisioned, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26303187.

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