CVE-2018-16266 describes a high-severity vulnerability in the Enlightenment system service of Tizen and Tizen-based firmwares, including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before specific builds. This flaw, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations, allows an unprivileged process to gain full control over or capture windows. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can be exploited over the adjacent network, leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in common repositories like Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.
| 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:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.