Remote Control Vulnerability in Samsung Mobile Devices: Unauthorized Screen Locking via Find My Mobile Network Traffic

CVE-2014-8346 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Remote Controls feature on Samsung mobile devices does not validate the source of lock-code data received over a network, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (screen locking with an arbitrary code) by triggering unexpected Find My Mobile network traffic.

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