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CVE-2015-4641

Published: Jun 19, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices allows remote web servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code in a privileged context, by leveraging control of the skslm.swiftkey.net domain name and providing a .. (dot dot) in an entry in a ZIP archive, as demonstrated by a traversal to the /data/dalvik-cache directory.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/

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https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/

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https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/

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vdb-entry

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/

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third-party-advisory

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