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CVE-2017-18649

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.2)—

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).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

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