NVD / CVE Program· CNA Samsung Mobile

CVE-2021-25418: Improper component protection vulnerability in Samsung Internet prior to version 14.0.1.62 allows untrusted applications to execute…

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.22% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Improper component protection vulnerability in Samsung Internet prior to version 14.0.1.62 allows untrusted applications to execute arbitrary activity in specific condition.

Published: Jun 11, 2021
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 13th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

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Vendor	Product	CPE
samsung	internet	cpe:2.3:a:samsung:internet

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

samsung internetbefore 14.0.1.62

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Samsung Mobile). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Samsung Mobile Samsung Internet
- unspecified and later · before 14.0.1.62affected

Same product

samsung: all records

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-25354Mar 25, 2021 · Improper input check in Samsung Internet prior to version 13.2.1.46 allows attackers to launch non-exported activity in Samsung Browser via…
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← EarlierCVE-2021-25366Mar 25, 2021 · Improper access control in Samsung Internet prior to version 13.2.1.70 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the secret mode's…
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Later →CVE-2021-25419Jun 11, 2021 · Non-compliance of recommended secure coding scheme in Samsung Internet prior to version 14.0.1.62 allows attackers to display fake URL in…
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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2021-2546690 days apartImproper scheme check vulnerability in Samsung Internet prior to version 15.0.2.47 allows attackers to perform Man-in-the-middle attack and…
23Monitor
CVE-2021-2544555 days apartUnprotected component vulnerability in Samsung Internet prior to version 14.2 allows untrusted application to access internal files in…
21Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-21-0474 · Jun 14, 2021(Samsung Güvenlik Zafiyeti)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

security.samsungmobile.com/serviceWeb.smsb?year=2021&month=6

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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