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I cannot test it since I have no rooted android device. But it would make sense since it is a kind of security problem since every simple bad app could find out the security patch level and then only use the most easy security hole to to its bad work.
– tardis
Commented Jan 11, 2017 at 10:13
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It works without root. Most (maybe all) of the files in /system are publicly readable, so just running the following command does the trick: cat /system/build.prop | grep security
– v6ak
Commented Oct 8, 2017 at 9:37

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