CVE-2017-18649 (GCVE-0-2017-18649)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-07 15:54 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:28
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Summary
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).
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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