CVE-2019-16253 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Samsung Text-to-speech Engine (SamsungTTS) application on Android, specifically versions prior to 3.0.02.7 and 3.0.00.101. This flaw allows a local attacker to elevate their privileges, potentially gaining system-level access. The vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability concerns, though it requires local access and low privileges. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.0.00.101CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samsung:text-to-speech:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* | ||
>= 3.0.00.102, < 3.0.02.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samsung:text-to-speech:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.