CVE-2016-1919: Samsung Knox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Samsung KNOX 1.0 uses a weak eCryptFS Key generation algorithm, which makes it easier for local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging knowledge of the TIMA key and a brute-force attack.

Affected products

• Samsung Knox: up to and including 1.0

Published 2017-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.