CVE-2017-18649

—

CVSS 3.1

7.2 high

EPSS

<1%p20

Published

Apr 7, 2020 (Apr 7, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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).

Vendors: google
Products: android
Weakness: CWE-354
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

In the news0 stories

No ingested article mentions this CVE yet.