Vulnerability
CVE-2018-21070
Component: BOOT
Location: FIRMWARE
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x), O(8.0) devices (MSM8998 or SDM845 chipsets) software. An attacker can bypass Secure Boot and obtain root access because of a missing Bootloader integrity check. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-11552 (May 2018).
Impact
Severity (Manufact.)
N/A
Severity (NIST)
8.4
Severity (Android)
N/A
Chipsets
2
Devices
173
Affected Hardware
Information reliability
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Timeline
Introduced (est):
Jan 1, 2018
Reported:
Unknown
Advisory Published:
N/A
CVE Published:
Apr 8, 2020
Android Patch Level:
None
