CVE-2016-0832 — Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25955042

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Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25955042

Published Mar 12, 2016

6.1

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.18%

Description

Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25955042.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.18% 0.00178

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00178

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)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.18% (0.00178)	6.62th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.18% (0.00178)	7.50th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.02% (0.00017)	2.17th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.05% (0.00054)	23.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 14, 2024	0.05% (0.00054)	21.64th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.05% (0.00054)	19.57th	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 (2)

CWE-254

CWE-264

References (2)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84264
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84264		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Mar 12, 2016

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Dec 16, 2015

Link CVE-2016-0832

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-0832

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-0832