CVE-2018-16265 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2018-16265?

CVE-2018-16265 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The bt/bt_core system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to create a system user interface and control the Bluetooth pairing process, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-16265?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux Tizen.

How do I fix CVE-2018-16265?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-16265 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-16265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2021-25434 Code injection in Tizen wearable devices Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25435 Code injection in Tizen wearable devices Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25436 Code injection in Tizen wearable devices Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25437 Missing authorization in Tizen wearable devices Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16262 Privilege escalation in n/a High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f95v-wr93-5m3v.