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CVE-2018-21042

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x), O(8.x), and P(9.0) software. Dual Messenger allows installation of an arbitrary APK with resultant privileged code execution. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-13299 (December 2018).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

References

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