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CVE-2015-6643

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6643 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the Setup Wizard in Android 5.x and 6.0, allowing physically proximate attackers to bypass reset protection or modify settings. With a CVSS score of 6.6, this flaw requires physical access to the device and low privileges, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there are no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness despite its inactive status on the CISA KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
9.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 9th percentile among its peer group of 170 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1034592