CVE-2018-16262: Linux Tizen

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pkgmgr system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to perform package management actions, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include installing, decrypting, and killing other packages. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Affected products

• Linux Tizen: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.3 only; …

Published 2020-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.