CVE-2018-16272: 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…

PriorityP350critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.63%

73.5th percentile

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.

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

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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