CVE-2020-8899: Google Android

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a buffer overwrite vulnerability in the Quram qmg library of Samsung's Android OS versions O(8.x), P(9.0) and Q(10.0). An unauthenticated, unauthorized attacker sending a specially crafted MMS to a vulnerable phone can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow in the Quram image codec leading to an arbitrary remote code execution (RCE) without any user interaction. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-16747.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only

Published 2020-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.