CVE-2018-16272

CRITICAL

Samsung Galaxy Gear Firmware < RE2 - Unauthenticated Improper Privilege Management via D-Bus Interface

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Exploit, 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

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

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

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 58.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (10)

samsung/galaxy_gear_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_2_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_fit_2_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_fit_2_pro_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_fit_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_live_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_s2_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_s3_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_s_firmware < re2

samsung/gear_sport_firmware < re2

Published Jan 22, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026