A vulnerability has been found in Samsung Tizen up to 5.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component Package Management Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The pkgmgr system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to perform package management actions, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include installing, decrypting, and killing other packages. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

The weakness was shared 01/22/2020. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-16262 since 08/31/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. Access to the local network is required for this attack. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 5.0 M1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Samsung

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• Tizen

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• 5.0

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• commercial

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• end of life (old version)

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