Local unauthorized ringer silencing via Telecom API
Published Aug 10, 2023 · Updated Oct 4, 2024
Improper access control in Samsung Mobile Devices Telecom before SMR Aug-2023 Release 1 allows local attackers to silence the ringer via an unprotected API. The Telecom silenceRinger API performs no required permission check before executing the ringer-silencing operation. Exploitation requires local access to the Android device; impact is limited to unauthorized interruption of audible ringing, with no documented data disclosure or code execution.
Summary
What happened
Improper access control in Samsung Mobile Devices Telecom before SMR Aug-2023 Release 1 allows local attackers to silence the ringer via an unprotected API. The Telecom silenceRinger API performs no required permission check before executing the ringer-silencing operation. Exploitation requires local access to the Android device; impact is limited to unauthorized interruption of audible ringing, with no documented data disclosure or code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-30682
- Published
- Aug 10, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Product
- Samsung Mobile Devices
- Classifications
- CWE-284, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 10, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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