CVE-2016-2425

Publication date 18 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

mail/compose/ComposeActivity.java in AOSP Mail in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 supports file:///data attachments, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka internal bugs 7154234 and 26989185.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
android	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

marking "not-affected" due to .java

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N