CVE-2018-16265

MEDIUM

Tizen < 5.0 M1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via D-Bus Security Policy Misconfiguration

Title source: llm

Description

The bt/bt_core system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to create a system user interface and control the Bluetooth pairing process, 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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20presentations/Dongsung%20Kim%20and%20Hyoung%20Kee%20Choi%20-%20Updated/DEFCON-26-Dongsung-Kim-and-Hyoung-Kee-Choi-Your-Watch-Can-Watch-You-Updated.pdf

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

https://review.tizen.org/git/?p=platform/core/connectivity/bluetooth-frwk.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=074dfc9709d8cee84564fc815796b0ef0c3273f5

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

https://review.tizen.org/git/?p=platform/core/connectivity/bluetooth-frwk.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bafbd66906ae5712874dc0d7dd6288d2c1ae4db2

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IdgBwbOT-g&feature=youtu.be

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0059

EPSS Percentile 43.8%

Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (11)

linux/tizen 1.0 (2 CPE variants)

linux/tizen 2.0

linux/tizen 2.1

linux/tizen 2.2

linux/tizen 2.2.1

linux/tizen 2.3

linux/tizen 2.3.1

linux/tizen 2.4

linux/tizen 3.0 (3 CPE variants)

linux/tizen 4.0 m1 (3 CPE variants)

... and 1 more

Published Jan 22, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026