CVE-2019-16253 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Text-to-speech Engine (aka SamsungTTS) application before 3.0.02.7 and 3.0.00.101 for Android allows a local attacker to escalate privileges, e.g., to system privileges. The Samsung case ID is 101755.

Published: 2019-09-25

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 10.9% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:samsung:text-to-speech::::::android::*
	cpe:2.3:a:samsung:text-to-speech::::::android::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.10904.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154614/Samsung-Mobile-Android-SamsungTTS-Privilege-Escalation.html
https://blog.flanker017.me/text-to-speech-speaks-pwned/
https://github.com/flankerhqd/vendor-android-cves/tree/master/SMT-CVE-2019-16253

History

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Subscriptions

Samsung Text-to-speech

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-09-25T22:40:55.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:10:41.668Z

Reserved: 2019-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-16253

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-09-25T23:15:10.607

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:30:23.687

Link: CVE-2019-16253

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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