CVE-2015-7888

Summary

CVECVE-2015-7888
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-06-07 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2017-06-14 14:49:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in the WifiHs20UtilityService on the Samsung S6 Edge LRX22G.G925VVRU1AOE2 allows remote attackers to overwrite or create arbitrary files as the system-level user via a .. (dot dot) in the name of a file, compressed into a zipped file named cred.zip, and downloaded to /sdcard/Download.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge - All All All
Hardware Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge - All All All
Operating System Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Firmware g925vvru1aoe2 All All All
Operating System Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Firmware g925vvru1aoe2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Samsung WifiHs20UtilityService Path Traversal ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory
Samsung Galaxy S6 CVE-2015-7888 Directory Traversal Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Issue 489 - project-zero - Samsung WifiHs20UtilityService path traversal - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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