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TizenFX EUVDEUVD-2026-70295

| CVE-2026-85084 MEDIUM
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
2026-09-02 samsung.tv_appliance GHSA-pch8-r8w2-4hxj
6.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: samsung.tv_appliance
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain low-privilege local access on Tizen device
  2. Delivery
    Install or control Tizen multimedia application
  3. Exploit
    Invoke MediaBufferBase indexer with out-of-range index
  4. Execution
    Trigger OOB write in media buffer
  5. Persist
    Corrupt adjacent memory
  6. Impact
    Crash multimedia subsystem or achieve controlled memory corruption

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, write limits
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation

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Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires local access to a Tizen OS device (Samsung Smart TV, Galaxy Watch, or Tizen IoT appliance) with a low-privilege application or user context, consistent with PR:L in the CVSS vector. High attack complexity (AC:H) indicates that specific conditions not fully under the attacker's control - likely a particular application state or memory layout at the time the MediaBufferBase indexer is invoked - must align for exploitation to succeed. Exploitation is bounded to integrity and availability impact only; no confidentiality impact is possible based on the fix diff. Remote exploitation is not possible; the attack vector is strictly local (AV:L). No non-default configuration is required - the vulnerability is in the core media framework API accessible to any Tizen .NET application granted multimedia privileges.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H) accurately reflects a moderate local-only vulnerability: exploitation requires physical or logical local access to a Tizen device, a low-privilege application or user context, and high attack complexity indicating specific memory-state or timing prerequisites beyond the attacker's full control. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing exist at time of analysis; EPSS was not provided in the input data, leaving exploitation probability unquantified but assessed as low given the attack surface constraints. The C:N rating is consistent with the fix diff, which targets a write-path indexer with no observable data-disclosure code path. I:H and A:H reflect the realistic potential for the OOB write to crash the Tizen multimedia subsystem or corrupt adjacent heap structures with further exploitation potential. Given the strictly local attack vector, high complexity, and absence of any exploitation evidence, this vulnerability is appropriately scheduled for the next routine Tizen firmware update rather than emergency response.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A malicious Tizen application installed on a Samsung Smart TV or Galaxy Watch with low-level multimedia privileges invokes the MediaBufferBase indexer with a carefully crafted out-of-range index value. Under the specific memory layout or application state conditions required by AC:H, the absent bounds check permits the OOB write, corrupting adjacent memory in the multimedia process - resulting in a subsystem crash (denial of service) or, in a more targeted scenario, memory corruption that enables further code-execution primitives. No public exploit code exists at time of analysis.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 02, 2026

Out-of-bounds write in Samsung TizenFX's MediaBufferBase component allows a local low-privileged attacker to corrupt memory by supplying unchecked array indices through the Tizen.Multimedia media buffer API. The vulnerable indexer property in Tizen.Multimedia.Common.Internal.MediaBufferBase lacked all bounds validation prior to fixes introduced in upstream PRs #7814 and #7815, admitting negative or oversized index values. Under high-complexity conditions, successful exploitation can produce high integrity and availability impact - crashing the multimedia subsystem or enabling controlled memory corruption - on Tizen-based devices such as Samsung Smart TVs and Galaxy Watch wearables. No public exploit exists and no active exploitation has been confirmed.

RemediationAI

Apply the upstream fixes from Samsung TizenFX GitHub pull requests #7814 (https://github.com/Samsung/TizenFX/pull/7814) and #7815 (https://github.com/Samsung/TizenFX/pull/7815), which introduce bounds-checking validation in MediaBufferBase.cs. A specific tagged release version incorporating these commits is not independently confirmed from the available data - monitor Samsung's Tizen security advisories and deploy the next vendor-released Tizen OS firmware that bundles these fixes. As a compensating control pending patch deployment, enforce Tizen application privilege separation to restrict untrusted applications from acquiring multimedia buffer access permissions, reducing the population of callers that can reach the vulnerable indexer. Note that privilege restriction may impact legitimate media applications and should be scoped carefully.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

TizenFX is the official .NET application framework for Samsung's Tizen OS, underpinning Samsung Smart TVs, Galaxy Watch devices, and Tizen IoT appliances. The affected component is the C

indexer property (byte this[int index]) inside MediaBufferBase.cs in Tizen.Multimedia.Common.Internal, which exposes direct read/write access to raw media buffer bytes. Prior to the fix, no bounds check was performed on the caller-supplied index value, satisfying the dual classification of CWE-787 (Out-of-Bounds Write) and CWE-129 (Improper Validation of Array Index). The upstream fix, visible in the PR diff, inserts an explicit guard - if (index < 0 || index >= Length) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(...) - immediately before buffer access. CPE cpe:2.3:a:samsung_open_source:tizenfx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers all TizenFX releases prior to the patched commits.

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Severity by source

Vendor (samsung.tv_appliance) PRIMARY 6.3 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 6.3 MEDIUM

Local-only API requiring app-level privilege (PR:L); AC:H for specific memory-state prerequisite; C:N confirmed by write-path-only fix diff.

3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (samsung.tv_appliance).

CVSS VectorVendor: samsung.tv_appliance

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High

DescriptionCVE.org

Out-of-bounds Write and Improper Validation of Array Index vulnerability in Samsung Open Source TizenFX Samsung/TizenFX allows Overflow Buffers.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 97% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
specialist Samsung Tizen developer framework, limited to Samsung device ecosystem
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment GitHub VulDB

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.1%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Defer
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Small
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.

Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.

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