CVE-2018-21042: Google Android

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x), O(8.x), and P(9.0) software. Dual Messenger allows installation of an arbitrary APK with resultant privileged code execution. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-13299 (December 2018).

Affected products

• Google Android: version 7.0 only; version 7.1.0 only; version 7.1.1 only; version 7.1.2 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; …

Published 2020-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.