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CVE-2018-21055

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.0) (Qualcomm models using MSM8996 chipsets) software. A device can be rooted with a custom image to execute arbitrary scripts in the INIT context. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-11940 (September 2018).

Affected products

• Android: 7.0

References

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

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