CVE-2015-4641
SwiftKey SDK - Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Write via ZIP Archive Entry
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Exploit x_refsource_misc
https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/
Exploit x_refsource_misc
https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/
Exploit x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412
Scores
EPSS
0.0368
EPSS Percentile
88.3%
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (1)
swiftkey/swiftkey_sdk
Published
Jun 19, 2015
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026