Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2015-4641 (CCN-104835) | ||||||||
Assigned: | 2015-06-16 | ||||||||
Published: | 2015-06-16 | ||||||||
Updated: | 2016-12-07 | ||||||||
Summary: | Directory traversal vulnerability in the SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices allows remote web servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code in a privileged context, by leveraging control of the skslm.swiftkey.net domain name and providing a .. (dot dot) in an entry in a ZIP archive, as demonstrated by a traversal to the /data/dalvik-cache directory. | ||||||||
CVSS v3 Severity: | 6.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
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CVSS v2 Severity: | 6.4 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) 4.7 Medium (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
4.7 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
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Vulnerability Type: | CWE-22 | ||||||||
Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Access | ||||||||
References: | Source: CCN Type: Ars Technica Web site New exploit turns Samsung Galaxy phones into remote bugging devices Source: MISC Type: Exploit http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/ Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2015-4641 Source: CCN Type: Computerworld Web site Vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy phones put over 600 million Samsung phone users at risk Source: CCN Type: US-CERT VU#155412 Samsung Galaxy S phones fail to properly validate Swiftkey language pack updates Source: CERT-VN Type: Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource VU#155412 Source: CCN Type: Samsung Web site Galaxy S Source: BID Type: UNKNOWN 75353 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN samsung-galaxy-cve20154641-dir-trav(104835) Source: MISC Type: Exploit https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/ Source: MISC Type: Exploit https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/ Source: MISC Type: Exploit https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/ | ||||||||
Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1: Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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