CVE-2019-16253: Samsung Text-To-Speech

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Text-to-speech Engine (aka SamsungTTS) application before 3.0.02.7 and 3.0.00.101 for Android allows a local attacker to escalate privileges, e.g., to system privileges. The Samsung case ID is 101755.

Affected products

• Samsung Text-To-Speech: before 3.0.00.101 (fixed in 3.0.00.101); from 3.0.00.102, before 3.0.02.7 (fixed in 3.0.02.7)

Published 2019-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.