A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Samsung Tizen up to 5.0. This affects an unknown part of the component system-popup System Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The system-popup system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to perform popup-related system actions, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include the triggering system poweroff menu, and prompting a popup with arbitrary strings. 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 is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-16267 since 08/31/2018. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be done within the local network. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 5.0 M1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-149230, VDB-149228, VDB-149227 and VDB-149226 are related to this item.

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• Tizen

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• 5.0

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