CVE-2015-4641

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

Swiftkey Sdk: all versions

References

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353
https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/
https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/
https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353
https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/
https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/
https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/

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