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CVE-2018-16272

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Publication date:
22/01/2020
Last modified:
17/06/2026

Description

The wpa_supplicant system service in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to fully control the Wi-Fi interface, due to the lack of its D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:galaxy_gear_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_gear:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_2_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:gear_2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_live_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:gear_live:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_s_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:gear_s:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_s2_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:gear_s2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_s3_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:gear_s3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_sport_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:gear_sport:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_fit_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* re2 (excluding)

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


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