module

Samsung Galaxy KNOX Android Browser RCE

Disclosed
2014-11-12
Created
2018-05-30

Description

A vulnerability exists in the KNOX security component of the Samsung Galaxy
firmware that allows a remote webpage to install an APK with arbitrary
permissions by abusing the 'smdm://' protocol handler registered by the KNOX
component.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in the Samsung Galaxy S4, S5, Note 3,
and Ace 4.

Authors

Andre Moulu
jduck jduck@metasploit.com
joev joev@metasploit.com

Platform

Android

Architectures

dalvik

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


msf > use exploit/android/browser/samsung_knox_smdm_url
msf exploit(samsung_knox_smdm_url) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(samsung_knox_smdm_url) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(samsung_knox_smdm_url) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(samsung_knox_smdm_url) > exploit

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