What is CVE-2018-16268?

CVE-2018-16268 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Tizen, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-01-22.

How severe is CVE-2018-16268?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Linux Tizen

CVE-2018-16268

The SoundServer/FocusServer system services in Tizen allow an unprivileged process to perform media-related system actions, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include playing an arbitrary sound file or DTMF…

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.005 (39.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Linux Tizen — versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.1
Samsung Galaxy_gear
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16268?: CVE-2018-16268 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Tizen, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-01-22.
How severe is CVE-2018-16268?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.