VAR-201610-0196
Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-13 23:14On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.[Samsung].android.intent.action.SET_WIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of SVE-2016-6542. This vulnerability SVE-2016-6542 Is part of Supplementary information : CWE Vulnerability type by CWE-275: Permission Issues ( Permission issues ) and CWE-388: Error Handling ( Error handling ) Has been identified. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/275.html https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/388.htmlAndroid In the framework of wifi-service.jar Could cause unintended configuration messages to be processed by. SamsungGalaxyS4 and so on are all smart mobile devices released by South Korea's Samsung. An information modification vulnerability exists in Samsung Galaxy S4 to S7 devices due to a failure of the program to verify the BroadcastReceiver response. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to illegally change configuration information. Remote attackers can exploit this issue to cause a denial-of-service condition
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
How durations are calculated
Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.
Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.
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