CVE-2016-0831: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 5.1.1 only; …

Published 2016-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.