What is CVE-2018-16269?

CVE-2018-16269 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy Gear, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-22.

How severe is CVE-2018-16269?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Samsung Galaxy Gear

CVE-2018-16269

The wnoti system service in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to take over the internal notification message data, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2020-01-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

media.defcon.org/DEF CON 26/DEF CON 26 presentations/Dongsung Kim and Hyoung Ke… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.youtube.com/watch (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16269?: CVE-2018-16269 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy Gear, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-22.
How severe is CVE-2018-16269?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.