CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2018-16272

CRITICALEPSS 73th pctl
9.8
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

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.

CWE-269Improper Privilege Management

How to fix

Remediation Available
galaxy gear firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear 2 firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear fit 2 firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear fit 2 pro firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear fit firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear live firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear s2 firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear s3 firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear s firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD
gear sport firmwareNVD
Affected:< re2Fixed in:re2CVE-2018-16272derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.63%probability of exploitation in 30 days
73rdpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 73% of all known CVEs.

References

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVESeverityCVSSEPSSExploitedFix
CVE-2017-12635Critical9.8100%-Fix
CVE-2022-24637Critical9.899%-Fix
CVE-2017-5689Critical9.892%KEVFix
CVE-2020-3243Critical9.888%--
CVE-2024-21888High8.887%--
CVE-2022-0441Critical9.885%-Fix
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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.