CVE-2015-7888

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134104/Samsung-WifiHs20UtilityService-Path-Traversal.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77338Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=489&q=samsung&redir=1Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134104/Samsung-WifiHs20UtilityService-Path-Traversal.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77338Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=489&q=samsung&redir=1Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 7, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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