CVE-2018-16262 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Tizen before 5.0 M1 and Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2. It allows an unprivileged process to perform unauthorized package management actions, such as installing, decrypting, or terminating other packages, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations within the pkgmgr system service. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability presents a significant risk as it can be exploited with low attack complexity and no user interaction, leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:tizen:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:tizen:1.0:m1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:tizen:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:tizen:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:tizen:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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