CVE-2012-2990: samsung kies Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-2990 is a high (CVSS 9.3) Code Injection vulnerability in samsung kies. EPSS estimates a 3.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 24-08-2012
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 17-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The MASetupCaller ActiveX control before 1.4.2012.508 in MASetupCaller.dll in MarkAny ContentSAFER, as distributed in Samsung KIES before 2.3.2.12074_13_13, does not properly implement unspecified methods, which allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary program onto a client machine, and execute this program, via a crafted HTML document.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.