CVE-2016-0812: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The interceptKeyBeforeDispatching function in policy/src/com/android/internal/policy/impl/PhoneWindowManager.java in Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G and 6.0 before 2016-02-01 does not properly check for setup completion, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 25229538.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 2016-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.