Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 19, 2015· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-4641
CVE-2015-4641
Description
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.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:swiftkey:swiftkey_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/nvdExploit
- www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/nvdExploit
- www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/nvdExploit
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412nvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353nvd
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