CVE-2015-3860 describes a lockscreen bypass vulnerability in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY48M. This flaw allows a physically proximate attacker to bypass access restrictions by entering an excessively long password into the passwordEntry field, causing the SystemUI to crash. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its local attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.