A vulnerability was found in Samsung J3 (version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Samsung J3 Android device with a build fingerprint of samsung/j3y17ltedx/j3y17lte:8.0.0/R16NW/J330GDXS3BSC1:user/release-keys contains a pre-installed app with a package name of com.samsung.android.themecenter app (versionCode=6010000, versionName=6.1.0.0) 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 shared 11/14/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-15451 since 08/22/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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

The entry VDB-145755 is related to this item.

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