CVE-2012-5858

Kies Air vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

4.3%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Samsung Kies Air 2.1.207051 and 2.1.210161 relies on the IP address for authentication, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to read arbitrary phone contents by spoofing or controlling the IP address.

Affected vendor

Samsung

Affected product

Kies Air

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Published

2012-12-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Samsung Kies Air is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-5858.
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