CVE-2015-4641
Directory traversal vulnerability in the SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices…
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- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices allows remote web servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code in a privileged context, by leveraging control of the skslm.swiftkey.net domain name and providing a .. (dot dot) in an entry in a ZIP archive, as demonstrated by a traversal to the /data/dalvik-cache directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 75353 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- VU#155412 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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