CVE-2016-2457: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

server/pm/UserManagerService.java in Wi-Fi in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-05-01 allows attackers to bypass intended restrictions on Wi-Fi configuration changes by leveraging guest access, aka internal bug 27411179.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 2016-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.