CVE-2018-16271: Samsung Galaxy Gear Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The wemail_consumer_service (from the built-in application wemail) in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to manipulate a user's mailbox, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. An arbitrary email can also be sent from the mailbox via the paired smartphone. This affects Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Affected products

• Samsung Galaxy Gear Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear 2 Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear Fit 2 Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear Fit 2 Pro Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear Fit Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear Live Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear s2 Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear s3 Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear S Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)
• Samsung Gear Sport Firmware: before re2 (fixed in re2)

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