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CVE-2019-14783

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

On Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x), and O(8.x), P(9.0) software, FotaAgent allows a malicious application to create privileged files. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-14764.

Affected products

• Android: 7.0, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1 (+1)

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154615/Samsung-Mobile-Android-FotaAgent-Arbitrary-File-Creation.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/33
• https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154615/Samsung-Mobile-Android-FotaAgent-Arbitrary-File-Creation.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/33
• https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

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