CVE-2018-16270: Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2 includes the hcidump utility with no privilege or permission restriction. This allows an unprivileged process to…

PriorityP339high7.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNIHAN

EPSS

1.16%

63.4th percentile

Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2 includes the hcidump utility with no privilege or permission restriction. This allows an unprivileged process to dump Bluetooth HCI packets to an arbitrary file path.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
samsung	galaxy_gear_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_2_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_fit_2_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_fit_2_pro_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_fit_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_live_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_s2_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_s3_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_s_firmware	< re2	re2
samsung	gear_sport_firmware	< re2	re2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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