Samsung · Samsungtts · CVE-2019-16253
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
SamsungTTS versions prior to 3.0.02.7
SamsungTTS version 3.0.00.101
**Description**
The issue allows a local attacker to escalate privileges, for example, to system privileges. It is related to the handling of debugging flags by the package manager binary. There is an estimated exploit that uses this issue as a payload.
**Recommendations**
For SamsungTTS versions prior to 3.0.02.7, update to version 3.0.02.7 or later.
For SamsungTTS version 3.0.00.101, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue.
As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the package manager binary until a patch is available.