CVE-2018-16265: Linux Tizen

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bt/bt_core system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to create a system user interface and control the Bluetooth pairing process, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. 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.