CVE-2015-4640

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-254 Security Features

Publication date:

19/06/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices relies on an HTTP connection to the skslm.swiftkey.net server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to write to language-pack files by modifying an HTTP response. NOTE: CVE-2015-4640 exploitation can be combined with CVE-2015-4641 exploitation for man-in-the-middle code execution.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.90 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

2.90

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:swiftkey:swiftkey_sdk::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s4::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s4_mini::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s5::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s6::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:swiftkey:swiftkey_sdk::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s4::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s4_mini::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s5::::::::
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s6::::::::

CVE-2015-4640

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools