CVE-2016-1920: Samsung Knox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Samsung KNOX 1.0.0 uses the shared certificate on Android, which allows local users to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks as demonstrated by installing a certificate and running a VPN service.

Affected products

• Samsung Knox: version 1.0 only

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