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CVE-2018-21079

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• 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: 2020-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.0), N(7.x), and O(8.0) software. There is a kernel pointer leak in the USB gadget driver. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10993 (March 2018).

Affected products

• Android: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1 (+6)

References

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

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