CVE-2015-7946

Publication date 7 May 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Information Exposure vulnerability in Unity8 as used on the Ubuntu phone and possibly also in Unity8 shipped elsewhere. This allows an attacker to enable the MTP service by opening the emergency dialer. Fixed in 8.11+16.04.20160111.1-0ubuntu1 and 8.11+15.04.20160122-0ubuntu1.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
unity8	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

this is scheduled to be fixed in OTA9

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.6 · Medium
Attack vector	Physical
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7946