Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 22, 2020· Updated Aug 5, 2024

CVE-2018-16271

Description

The wemail_consumer_service (from the built-in application wemail) in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to manipulate a user's mailbox, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. An arbitrary email can also be sent from the mailbox via the paired smartphone. This affects Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Affected products

Samsung/Galaxy Gear seriesdescription
Samsung Mobile/Galaxy Gearllm-create
Range: < RE2

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

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.pdfmitrex_refsource_MISC
www.youtube.com/watchmitrex_refsource_MISC

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