CVE-2015-4641

Published Jun 19, 2015 CVSS 2.0 · 6.4 Medium EPSS 3.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-4660 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 6:18 AM
Reserved
Jun 17, 2015, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 19, 2015, 2:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:27 AM