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CVE-2015-7898

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7898 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Samsung Gallery application on the Samsung Galaxy S6. A local attacker can trigger a process crash by exploiting a flaw in GIF parsing. This vulnerability is rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5) due to its local attack vector and high impact on availability, though it requires user interaction. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has received limited community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38610 · Nov 3, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0084 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

packetstormsecurity.com / files/134951/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Samsung-Gallery-GIF-Parsing-Crash.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
bugs.chromium.org / p/project-zero/issues/detail
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/38610
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/77430
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry