CVE-2018-16272 describes a critical vulnerability in the wpa_supplicant system service of Samsung Galaxy Gear series devices running Tizen-based firmware before build RE2. This flaw allows an unprivileged process to gain full control over the Wi-Fi interface due to missing D-Bus security policy configurations. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< re2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:galaxy_gear_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< re2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_2_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< re2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_live_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< re2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_s_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< re2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:gear_s2_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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.