CVE-2015-4641

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Directory traversal vulnerability in the SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices allows remote web servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code in a privileged context, by leveraging control of the skslm.swiftkey.net domain name and providing a .. (dot dot) in an entry in a ZIP archive, as demonstrated by a traversal to the /data/dalvik-cache directory.

Vulnerabilidad de salto de directorio en la implementación de la actualización del paquete de lenguas SwiftKey en los dispositivos Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, y S6 permite servidores web remotos escribir en ficheros arbitrarios, y como consecuencia ejecutar código arbitrario en un contexto privilegiado, mediante el aprovechamiento del control del nombre de dominio skslm.swiftkey.net y la provisión de un .. (punto punto) en una entrada en un archivo ZIP, tal y como fue demostrado por un salto en el directorio /data/dalvik-cache.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-06-17 CVE Reserved
2015-06-19 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-08-06 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices	2024-08-06
https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc	2024-08-06
https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones	2024-08-06
https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Swiftkey Search vendor "Swiftkey"	Swiftkey Sdk Search vendor "Swiftkey" for product "Swiftkey Sdk"	*	-	Affected	in	Samsung Search vendor "Samsung"	Galaxy S4 Search vendor "Samsung" for product "Galaxy S4"	*	-	Safe
Swiftkey Search vendor "Swiftkey"	Swiftkey Sdk Search vendor "Swiftkey" for product "Swiftkey Sdk"	*	-	Affected	in	Samsung Search vendor "Samsung"	Galaxy S4 Mini Search vendor "Samsung" for product "Galaxy S4 Mini"	*	-	Safe
Swiftkey Search vendor "Swiftkey"	Swiftkey Sdk Search vendor "Swiftkey" for product "Swiftkey Sdk"	*	-	Affected	in	Samsung Search vendor "Samsung"	Galaxy S5 Search vendor "Samsung" for product "Galaxy S5"	*	-	Safe
Swiftkey Search vendor "Swiftkey"	Swiftkey Sdk Search vendor "Swiftkey" for product "Swiftkey Sdk"	*	-	Affected	in	Samsung Search vendor "Samsung"	Galaxy S6 Search vendor "Samsung" for product "Galaxy S6"	*	-	Safe