PT-2015-6649 · Samsung · Samsung Galaxy S

Fuzion24 + 1 · Published 2015-06-19 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-4641

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Samsung Galaxy S series (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote web servers to write to arbitrary files and 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. This can be demonstrated by a traversal to the /data/dalvik-cache directory.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-4641

Affected Products

Samsung Galaxy S

References · 7

• 🔥 http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices · Exploit
• 🔥 https://nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones · Exploit
• 🔥 https://nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4641 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/75353 · Note