CVE-2015-6643 — Setup Wizard in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49F and 6.0 before 2016-01-01 allows physically proximate attackers to modify settings or bypass a reset protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25290269

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Setup Wizard in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49F and 6.0 before 2016-01-01 allows physically proximate attackers to modify settings or bypass a reset protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25290269

Published Jan 6, 2016

6.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.19%

Description

Setup Wizard in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49F and 6.0 before 2016-01-01 allows physically proximate attackers to modify settings or bypass a reset protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25290269.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.19% 0.00190

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00190

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.19% (0.00190)	7.85th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.19% (0.00190)	8.78th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.01% (0.00014)	1.33th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	14.58th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 25, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	12.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00044)	10.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034592
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034592		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Jan 6, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 21, 2015

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-6643

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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