Remote Code Execution as System User on Android 5 Samsung Devices abusing WifiCredService (Hotspot 2.0)
blog.quarkslab.com | vulnerability | #rce | #android | #path-traversal | #mobile-security | #vulnerability | #samsung
Summary
Analysis of an Android 5 Samsung RCE (found independently by Project Zero and Quarkslab): WifiCredService unzips cred*.zip files without validating names, allowing system-level arbitrary file writes.
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--- id: 4551 title: "Remote Code Execution as System User on Android 5 Samsung Devices abusing WifiCredService (Hotspot 2.0)" source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-android-5-samsung-devices-abusing-wificredservice-hotspot-20.html" published_at: "2015-11-11T23:00:00Z" tags: ["rce", "android", "path-traversal", "mobile-security", "vulnerability", "samsung"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4551" lang: en --- # Remote Code Execution as System User on Android 5 Samsung Devices abusing WifiCredService (Hotspot 2.0) ## Summary Analysis of an Android 5 Samsung RCE (found independently by Project Zero and Quarkslab): WifiCredService unzips cred*.zip files without validating names, allowing system-level arbitrary file writes. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com - **Published:** 2015-11-11T23:00:00Z - **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-android-5-samsung-devices-abusing-wificredservice-hotspot-20.html - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4551