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CVE-2023-42579

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-42579 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Samsung Keyboard versions on Android 11, 12, and 13, specifically within the integrated SogouSDK. It stems from the improper use of HTTP, allowing adjacent attackers to intercept keystroke data via a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack. The attack requires adjacent network access and has high confidentiality impact, but no integrity or availability impact. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.3.70.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samsung:samsung_keyboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.4.60.0, < 5.4.60.49CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samsung:samsung_keyboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.4.85.0, < 5.4.85.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samsung:samsung_keyboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5.00.0, < 5.5.00.58CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samsung:samsung_keyboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.6.00.0, < 5.6.00.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samsung:samsung_keyboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
6.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0017 is in the 2nd percentile among its peer group of 1,749 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

security.samsungmobile.com / serviceWeb.smsb
Vendor Advisory