CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18649
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-354
Description
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) software. An attacker can boot a device with root privileges because the bootloader for the Qualcomm MSM8998 chipset lacks an integrity check of the system image, aka the "SamFAIL" issue. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10465 (November 2017).
Affected configurations
• google android 7.0
• google android 7.1.0
• google android 7.1.1
• google android 7.1.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-354 Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value weakness
References
- https://androidcommunity.com/samfail-method-gives-root-access-to-samsung-galaxy-note-8-snapdragon-variant-20171009/ Third Party Advisory
- https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb Vendor Advisory
- https://androidcommunity.com/samfail-method-gives-root-access-to-samsung-galaxy-note-8-snapdragon-variant-20171009/ Third Party Advisory
- https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb Vendor Advisory