Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CVE-2019-20579
Summary
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x), O(8.x), and P(9.0) software. Gallery allows attackers to enable Location information sharing from the lock screen. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-14462 (August 2019).
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CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published