Threats / Samsung / CVE-2025-4632
CVE-2025-4632
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Verified 2026-08-04
Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server vulnerability
Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server contains a path traversal vulnerability allowing arbitrary file writes with system privileges.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A path traversal flaw in MagicINFO 9 Server enables unauthenticated or low-privileged attackers to write files outside intended directories with system-level authority, risking code execution and system compromise.
CISA KEV Yes · 2025-05-225EPSS 0.24437 (verify live)6Exploit Weaponized · public PoC7CVSS 9.83CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total4
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
19 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-05-22).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.24437 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Samsung, MagicINFO 9 Server. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.1, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-22 Path Traversal — weakness family: Path traversal / file.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 9 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a public proof-of-concept / detection template). Catalog entries: nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a request with path traversal sequences to bypass directory restrictions and write a malicious file to a system-critical location.
Business
Attackers gain arbitrary code execution capability on the server, enabling full system takeover and lateral movement within the network.
2
Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I overwrite configuration or application files to establish persistence or escalate privileges on the compromised system.
Business
The organization loses control of its digital signage infrastructure and faces extended downtime during incident response and remediation.
3
Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I write webshell or backdoor files to maintain access and exfiltrate sensitive data from connected systems.
Business
Customer data, operational intelligence, and proprietary content displayed on signage networks become exposed to theft or manipulation.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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Coverage & confidence
— what we know, and what we don’tEstablished (cited)
Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden
Disclosure & credit2
Catalogued by samsung.tv_applianceCNA
Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.