A vulnerability was found in Samsung Galaxy Gear up to Build RE1 (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component wpa_supplicant System Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The wpa_supplicant system service in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to fully control the Wi-Fi interface, due to the lack of its D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

The weakness was shared 01/22/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-16272 since 08/31/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version Build RE2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-149233, VDB-149232 and VDB-149231 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Samsung

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• Galaxy Gear

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• Build RE1

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