A vulnerability was found in Samsung j3popeltecan (version now known). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Samsung j3popeltecan Android device with a build fingerprint of samsung/j3popeltevl/j3popeltecan:8.1.0/M1AJQ/J327WVLS3BSA2:user/release-keys contains a pre-installed app with a package name of com.samsung.android.themecenter app (versionCode=7000100, versionName=7.0.1.0) that allows other pre-installed apps to perform app installation via an accessible app component. This capability can be accessed by any pre-installed app on the device which can obtain signatureOrSystem permissions that are required by other other pre-installed apps that exported their capabilities to other pre-installed app.

The weakness was presented 11/14/2019. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-15450 since 08/22/2019. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-145770, VDB-145771, VDB-145772 and VDB-145773 for similar entries.

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• j3popeltecan

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