What is CVE-2016-0831?

CVE-2016-0831 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-03-12.

How severe is CVE-2016-0831?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Google Android

CVE-2016-0831

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.005 (38.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Google Android — versions 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

security@android.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security@android.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security@android.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-0831?: CVE-2016-0831 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-03-12.
How severe is CVE-2016-0831?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.