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CVE-2018-21087

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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-787

Description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.x), and N(7.x) software. There is a vnswap heap-based buffer overflow via the store function, with resultant privilege escalation. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10599 (January 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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