What is CVE-2018-16271?

CVE-2018-16271 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy_gear, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-01-22.

How severe is CVE-2018-16271?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Samsung Galaxy_gear

CVE-2018-16271

The wemail_consumer_service (from the built-in application wemail) in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to manipulate a user's mailbox, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. An arbitrary email can al…

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.008 (52.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16271?: CVE-2018-16271 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy_gear, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-01-22.
How severe is CVE-2018-16271?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.