CVE-2018-21055
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-08 17:51
Modified
2024-08-05 12:19
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.0) (Qualcomm models using MSM8996 chipsets) software. A device can be rooted with a custom image to execute arbitrary scripts in the INIT context. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-11940 (September 2018).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsbVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsbVendor Advisory
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