Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-4640 - 7PK - Security Features vulnerability in Swiftkey SDK
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
The SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices relies on an HTTP connection to the skslm.swiftkey.net server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to write to language-pack files by modifying an HTTP response. NOTE: CVE-2015-4640 exploitation can be combined with CVE-2015-4641 exploitation for man-in-the-middle code execution.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| Hardware | 4 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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/75347
- 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/