CVE-2018-16272: Samsung Galaxy Gear Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The wpa_supplicant system service in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to fully control the Wi-Fi interface, due to the lack of its D-Bus security policy configurations. 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.