CVE-2015-4641
Directory traversal vulnerability in the SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices allows remote web servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code in a privileged…
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Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the SwiftKey language-pack update implementation on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S5, and S6 devices allows remote web servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code in a privileged context, by leveraging control of the skslm.swiftkey.net domain name and providing a .. (dot dot) in an entry in a ZIP archive, as demonstrated by a traversal to the /data/dalvik-cache directory.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.68% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- swiftkey/swiftkey sdk
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353
- https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/Exploit
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/155412Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75353
- https://github.com/nowsecure/samsung-ime-rce-poc/Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/Exploit
- https://www.nowsecure.com/keyboard-vulnerability/Exploit
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.