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High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Apr 7, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-18649

CVE-2017-18649

Description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) software. An attacker can boot a device with root privileges because the bootloader for the Qualcomm MSM8998 chipset lacks an integrity check of the system image, aka the "SamFAIL" issue. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10465 (November 2017).

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Affected products

7
  • Google/Android4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Samsung/mobile devicesdescription
  • Samsung Mobile/mobile devicesllm-create
    Range: N(7.x)
  • Qualcomm/MSM8998 chipsetllm-create

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