CVE-2016-2421: Google Android

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

Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before 5.1.1 and 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26154410.

Affected products

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

Published 2016-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.