CVE-2017-18649: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• Google Android: version 7.0 only; version 7.1.0 only; version 7.1.1 only; version 7.1.2 only

Published 2020-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.