High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-16253

Description

The Text-to-speech Engine (aka SamsungTTS) application before 3.0.02.7 and 3.0.00.101 for Android allows a local attacker to escalate privileges, e.g., to system privileges. The Samsung case ID is 101755.

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Affected products

Samsung Mobile/SamsungTTSllm-fuzzy
Range: <3.0.02.7 and <3.0.00.101
Samsung Pay/Samsung Payllm-fuzzy
Range: <3.0.02.7 and <3.0.00.101
SamsungTTS/Text-to-speech Enginedescription
Samsung Mobile/Text To Speech
cpe:2.3:a:samsung:text-to-speech:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*
Range: <3.0.00.101

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/154614/Samsung-Mobile-Android-SamsungTTS-Privilege-Escalation.htmlnvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
blog.flanker017.me/text-to-speech-speaks-pwned/nvd
github.com/flankerhqd/vendor-android-cves/tree/master/SMT-CVE-2019-16253nvd

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