CVE-2020-13833 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

90%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

86%

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.x), P(9.0), and Q(10.0) software. The system area allows arbitrary file overwrites via a symlink attack. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-17183 (June 2020).

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Google Android

First reported 4 years ago

2020-06-04 18:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-06-07 23:15:00

Affected Software

Google Android 8.0

8.0

Google Android 8.1

8.1

Google Android 9.0

9.0

Google Android 10.0

10.0

References

https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

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