SB2020041037 - Path traversal in Google, Google Android
Published: April 10, 2020 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020041037
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9546)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with KK(4.4) and later software through 2015-06-16. In some cases, HTTP is used for an Inputmethod, rather than HTTPS. A man-in-the-middle attacker can modify the client-server data stream to insert directory traversal sequences into an extracted file path. The Samsung ID is SVE-2015-4363 (November 2015).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.