VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-18649

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-04-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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).

Weakness classification

  • CWE-354: Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

Primary references