CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16271

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-01-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-01-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

The wemail_consumer_service (from the built-in application wemail) in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to manipulate a user's mailbox, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. An arbitrary email can also be sent from the mailbox via the paired smartphone. This affects Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Affected configurations

• samsung galaxy gear firmware (< re2) • samsung gear 2 firmware (< re2) • samsung gear live firmware (< re2) • samsung gear s firmware (< re2) • samsung gear s2 firmware (< re2) • samsung gear s3 firmware (< re2) • samsung gear sport firmware (< re2) • samsung gear fit firmware (< re2) • samsung gear fit 2 firmware (< re2) • samsung gear fit 2 pro firmware (< re2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References