CVE-2018-21070

HighCVSS 8.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.4/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-354

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Apr 8, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2018-21070: High severity, CVSS 8.4 | Vulnix