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CVE-2021-25370

4.4, medium Known exploited

Samsung Mobile Devices Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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CVSS
4.4, medium medium CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
0.9% higher than 58.6% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
26 Mar 20215 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 8 Nov 2022. US federal agencies had to remediate by 29 Nov 2022, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Description

An incorrect implementation handling file descriptor in dpu driver prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 results in memory corruption leading to kernel panic.

Details

Vendor
Samsung
Product
Samsung Mobile Devices
Weakness
CWE-416 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
mobile.security@samsung.com

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

References 3

Advisories 2

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other Samsung CVEs

Every Samsung CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2025-21042 Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 33% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2025-21043 Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2025-4632 Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server Path Traversal Vulnerability KEV EPSS 24% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2024-7399 Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server Path Traversal Vulnerability KEV EPSS 92% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2023-21492 Samsung Mobile Devices Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Log File Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 4.4, medium
  • CVE-2022-22265 Samsung Mobile Devices Use-After-Free Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.4% 7.8, high
  • CVE-2021-25487 Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.6% 7.8, high
  • CVE-2021-25489 Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Input Validation Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.5% 5.5, medium

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.