Samsung Tizen up to 5.0 Enlightenment System Service privileges management

CVSS Meta Temp Score
CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.
Current Exploit Price (≈)
Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.
CTI Interest Score
Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
7.0$0-$5k0.00

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Samsung Tizen up to 5.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Enlightenment System Service. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2018-16266. The attack must be carried out from within the local network. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Samsung Tizen up to 5.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Enlightenment 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 Enlightenment system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to fully control or capture windows, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

The weakness was presented 01/22/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-16266 since 08/31/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No form of authentication is required for 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.

See VDB-149230, VDB-149229, VDB-149227 and VDB-149226 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

Name

Version

License

Website

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 8.1
NVD Vector: 🔍

CVSSv2info

AVACAuCIA
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
VectorComplexityAuthenticationConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Partially

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-DayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
TodayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Upgrade: Tizen 5.0 M1
Patch: 8ff5c24d04f97b1c84b463535876600b22128fb4

Timelineinfo

08/31/2018 🔍
01/22/2020 +509 days 🔍
01/23/2020 +1 days 🔍
03/25/2024 +1523 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: samsung.com

Advisory: media.defcon.org
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2018-16266 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-16266
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-149228
See also: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 01/23/2020 06:51
Updated: 03/25/2024 09:39
Changes: 01/23/2020 06:51 (38), 01/23/2020 06:56 (17), 03/25/2024 09:39 (20)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Discussion

No comments yet. Languages: en.

Please log in to comment.

◂ PreviousOverviewNext ▸

Want to know what is going to be exploited?

We predict KEV entries!