CVE-2021-25371

published 2021-03-26

CVE-2021-25371: A vulnerability in DSP driver prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 allows attackers load arbitrary ELF libraries inside DSP.

Priority P2 74 medium 6.7 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR H UI N S U C H I H A H

KEV ITW

A vulnerability in DSP driver prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 allows attackers load arbitrary ELF libraries inside DSP.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
samsung	android	—	—
samsung	android	—	—
samsung_mobile	samsung_mobile_devices	>= Q(10.0), R(11.0) devices with exynos980, exynos2100, exynos9830 < SMR Mar-2021 Release 1	SMR Mar-2021 Release 1

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

• → Vulnerability resides in the DSP driver on Samsung Mobile Devices; monitor for attempts to load arbitrary ELF libraries into the DSP subsystem ↗
• → Target scope is Samsung Mobile Devices; prioritize detection on unpatched devices running DSP driver versions prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 ↗

• · Vulnerability details are described as 'unspecified' by CISA; no technical primitives, exploit code, or specific attack vectors are publicly documented in these sources, limiting detection specificity ↗
• · Patch reference is Samsung SMR Mar-2021 Release 1; devices not updated to or beyond this release should be considered vulnerable ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.7 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vulncheck 6.1 MEDIUM

cisa 6.7 MEDIUM

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