CVE-2018-21070: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x), O(8.0) devices (MSM8998 or SDM845 chipsets) software. An attacker can bypass Secure Boot and obtain root access because of a missing Bootloader integrity check. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-11552 (May 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

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