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Samsung Galaxy KNOX Android Browser RCE

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Disclosed
Nov 12, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

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
Elliot Alderson
jduck [email protected]
joev [email protected]

Platform

Android

Architectures

dalvik

References

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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