A vulnerability has been found in Samsung Galaxy Gear up to Build RE1 (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component wemail_consumer_service. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The wemail_consumer_service (from the built-in application wemail) in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to manipulate a user's mailbox, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. An arbitrary email can also be sent from the mailbox via the paired smartphone. This affects Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

The weakness was presented 01/22/2020. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-16271 since 08/31/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to approached within the local network. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version Build RE2 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-149234, VDB-149232 and VDB-149231 for similar entries.

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• Samsung

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• Galaxy Gear

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• Build RE1

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• commercial

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