CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-4641
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• swiftkey swiftkey sdk
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/ Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/ Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/ Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/ Exploit
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/ Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/ Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/ Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/ Exploit