CVE-2016-0831

medium

Description

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.

References

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/telephony/+/79eecef63f3ea99688333c19e22813f54d4a31b1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84266

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-03-12

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00166