Samsung Mobile Devices with MSM8998 or SDM845 Chipsets Secure Boot Bypass Vulnerability

Samsung Mobile Devices with MSM8998 or SDM845 Chipsets Secure Boot Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2018-21070 · HIGH Severity

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

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).

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