CVE-2015-4641 (GCVE-0-2015-4641)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-06-19 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-06-16 00:00
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