CVE-2015-8546

CVSS V2 High 10 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
Description
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with software through 2015-11-12, affecting the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge, Galaxy S6 Edge+, and Galaxy Note5 with the Shannon333 chipset. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the baseband process that is exploitable for remote code execution via a fake base station. The Samsung ID is SVE-2015-5123 (December 2015).
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2015-8546
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-04-10T19:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-04-13T13:04:27
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-787 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_note5:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s6_edge:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:h:samsung:galaxy_s6_edge\+:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 10
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8546
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8546
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:44:52 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 14:17:44 2020-04-10T19:15Z 2020-04-10T19:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 14:17:44 2020-04-13T13:04:27 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 14:17:44 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated