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CVE-2015-7897

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7897 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in the face recognition library of the android.media.process component in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge devices prior to G925VVRU4B0G9. This flaw, rated with a CVSS score of 7.5, allows remote attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service through a crafted BMP image file. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-38611) confirms the existence of public exploit code, and it has garnered community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of its potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38611 · Nov 3, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0700 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com / 2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html
Vendor Advisory
packetstormsecurity.com / files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html
code.google.com / p/google-security-research/issues/detail
exploit-db.com / exploits/38611