CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2015-1801

Galaxy S4 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
The samsung_extdisp driver in the Samsung S4 (GT-I9500) I9500XXUEMK8 kernel 3.4 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or gain privileges.
Affected vendor
Samsung
Affected product
Galaxy S4 Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2017-08-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-1801

  • Confirm whether Samsung Galaxy S4 Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-1801.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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