CVE-2025-27606

MEDIUM5.1

Element Android PIN autologout bypass

Published Mar 14, 2025

Modified 11 months ago

Details

Element Android is an Android Matrix Client provided by Element. Element Android up to version 1.6.32 can, under certain circumstances, fail to logout the user if they input the wrong PIN more than the configured amount of times. An attacker with physical access to a device can exploit this to guess the PIN. Version 1.6.34 solves the issue.

References

WEB

https://github.com/element-hq/element-android/commit/53bd78b05de375c6e6b0b5aa794a56b4ba95984c

WEB

https://github.com/element-hq/element-android/commit/87d7fcdc8036a4db4da8c403f87c73a64a546304

WEB

https://github.com/element-hq/element-android/security/advisories/GHSA-632v-9pm3-m8ch

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27606

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

5.1