CVE-2015-7888

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the WifiHs20UtilityService on the Samsung S6 Edge LRX22G.G925VVRU1AOE2 allows remote attackers to overwrite or create arbitrary files as the system-level user via a .. (dot dot) in the name of a file, compressed into a zipped file named cred.zip, and downloaded to /sdcard/Download.

Affected products

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Firmware: g925vvru1aoe2

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134104/Samsung-WifiHs20UtilityService-Path-Traversal.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77338
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=489&q=samsung&redir=1
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134104/Samsung-WifiHs20UtilityService-Path-Traversal.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77338
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=489&q=samsung&redir=1

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