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CVE-2017-18020

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

On Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.x), and N(7.x) software and Exynos chipsets, attackers can execute arbitrary code in the bootloader because S Boot omits a size check during a copy of ramfs data to memory. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10598.

Affected products

• Samsung Mobile: 5.0, 5.1, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0 (+3)

References

• https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb
• https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

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