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Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2019-20579

Severity Low
Score 2.4/10

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).

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

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