CVE-2015-4641

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-4641
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-06-19 14:59:02 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionDirectory 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.4 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-22 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Samsung Galaxy S4 All All All All
Hardware Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini All All All All
Hardware Samsung Galaxy S5 All All All All
Hardware Samsung Galaxy S6 All All All All
Application Swiftkey Swiftkey Sdk All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Malformed Request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Remote Code Execution as System User on Samsung Phones | NowSecure Blogs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.nowsecure.com Exploit
New exploit turns Samsung Galaxy phones into remote bugging devices | Ars Technica af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 arstechnica.com Exploit
nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit
Samsung Keyboard Security Risk Disclosed: Over 600M+ Devices Worldwide Impacted | NowSecure af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.nowsecure.com Exploit
Vulnerability Note VU#155412 - Samsung Galaxy S phones fail to properly validate SwiftKey language pack updates af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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