NFC Lockscreen Bypass Vulnerability on Samsung Mobile Devices

CVE-2018-21080 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) software. A physically proximate attacker wielding a magnet can activate NFC to bypass the lockscreen. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10897 (March 2018).

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