What is CVE-2015-9546?

CVE-2015-9546 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2020-04-10.

How severe is CVE-2015-9546?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Google Android

CVE-2015-9546

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with KK(4.4) and later software through 2015-06-16. In some cases, HTTP is used for an Inputmethod, rather than HTTPS. A man-in-the-middle attacker can modify the client-server data stream to insert directory traversal sequences into an extracted file path. The Samsung ID is SVE-2015-4363 (November 2015).

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.003 (26.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Google Android — versions 4.4
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9546?: CVE-2015-9546 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2020-04-10.
How severe is CVE-2015-9546?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.