What is CVE-2018-16270?

CVE-2018-16270 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy Gear, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-22.

How severe is CVE-2018-16270?

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

Privilege escalation in Samsung Galaxy Gear

CVE-2018-16270

Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2 includes the hcidump utility with no privilege or permission restriction. This allows an unprivileged process to dump Bluetooth HCI packets to an arbitrary file path.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

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:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (65.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

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-2018-16270?: CVE-2018-16270 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy Gear, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-22.
How severe is CVE-2018-16270?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.