CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-16268

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Jan 22, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
4.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
3.3 LOW
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The SoundServer/FocusServer system services in Tizen allow an unprivileged process to perform media-related system actions, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include playing an arbitrary sound file or DTMF tones. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Tizen Linux 1.0 1.0
Tizen Linux 1.0 1.0
Tizen Linux 2.0 2.0
Tizen Linux 2.1 2.1
Tizen Linux 2.2 2.2
Tizen Linux 2.2.1 2.2.1
Tizen Linux 2.3 2.3
Tizen Linux 2.3.1 2.3.1
Tizen Linux 2.4 2.4
Tizen Linux 3.0 3.0
Tizen Linux 3.0 3.0
Tizen Linux 3.0 3.0
Tizen Linux 4.0 4.0
Tizen Linux 4.0 4.0
Tizen Linux 4.0 4.0
Tizen Linux 5.0 5.0

Potential Mitigations

References