CVE-2015-7889

Description

The SecEmailComposer/EmailComposer application in the Samsung S6 Edge before the October 2015 MR uses weak permissions for the com.samsung.android.email.intent.action.QUICK_REPLY_BACKGROUND service action, which might allow remote attackers with knowledge of the local email address to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that sends a crafted intent.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Exploits

Exploit-DB

• EDB-38558 · dos · android

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134105/Samsung-SecEmailComposer-QUICK_REPLY_BACKGROUND-Permission-Weakness.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77339
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=490&redir=1
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38558/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134105/Samsung-SecEmailComposer-QUICK_REPLY_BACKGROUND-Permission-Weakness.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77339
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=490&redir=1
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38558/

CWEs

CWE-275