7.8
HIGH
CVE-2019-16253
SamsungTTS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description

The Text-to-speech Engine (aka SamsungTTS) application before 3.0.02.7 and 3.0.00.101 for Android allows a local attacker to escalate privileges, e.g., to system privileges. The Samsung case ID is 101755.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 25, 2019, 11:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:30 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-16253 has a 8 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-16253 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Samsung text-to-speech

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Curated list of awesome Android apps making use of Shizuku

Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago
4 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : April 3, 2024, 5:02 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Curated list of awesome Android apps making use of Shizuku app

Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago
28 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 8, 2024, 7:08 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

As of oneui 4.1 with android security patch august 1st of 2023 in android 12, DOES NOT WORK. It might work with update version lower than listed

android bug exploit oneui samsung vulnerability

Java Makefile C

Updated: 1 year, 1 month ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 5, 2023, 4:48 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

About Run commands as system (uid 1000) on Samsung devices! Includes API for privileged access!

Java Makefile C

Updated: 1 year, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 8, 2023, 9:33 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

SMT Shell with a twist! Fully updated and upgraded.

Java Makefile C

Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago
63 stars 6 fork 6 watcher
Born at : May 28, 2023, 10:22 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Exploit I discovered in October of 2022 with androids Package manager binary (pm) and the way it handled debugging flags, patched out by march 2023. Uses CVE-2019-16253 as a payload to obtain a system shell.

adb android exploit samsung shell system

Updated: 4 weeks ago
78 stars 15 fork 15 watcher
Born at : Jan. 19, 2023, 7:47 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Curated list of awesome Android apps making use of Shizuku

awesome android awesome-list shizuku adb android-mods no-root rootless

Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago
4278 stars 89 fork 89 watcher
Born at : Oct. 9, 2022, 3:24 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

2019年天融信阿尔法实验室在微信公众号发布的所有安全资讯汇总

Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
34 stars 5 fork 5 watcher
Born at : Jan. 11, 2021, 2:13 a.m. This repo has been linked 241 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-16253 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-16253 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154614/Samsung-Mobile-Android-SamsungTTS-Privilege-Escalation.html
    Added Reference https://blog.flanker017.me/text-to-speech-speaks-pwned/
    Added Reference https://github.com/flankerhqd/vendor-android-cves/tree/master/SMT-CVE-2019-16253
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 24, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-269 NVD-CWE-noinfo
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 06, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://blog.flanker017.me/text-to-speech-speaks-pwned/ [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://github.com/flankerhqd/vendor-android-cves/tree/master/SMT-CVE-2019-16253 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 01, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154614/Samsung-Mobile-Android-SamsungTTS-Privilege-Escalation.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154614/Samsung-Mobile-Android-SamsungTTS-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Added CWE CWE-269
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:samsung:text-to-speech:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.0.00.101 *cpe:2.3:a:samsung:text-to-speech:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* versions from (including) 3.0.00.102 up to (excluding) 3.0.02.7
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-16253 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-16253 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.04 }} 0.00%

score

0.05635

percentile

CVSS31 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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