CVE-2017-7978: Samsung Mobile

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Samsung Android devices with L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.x) software allow attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a world-readable log file after an unexpected reboot. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-8290.

Affected products

• Samsung Samsung Mobile: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.1.1 only; …

Published 2017-04-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.