{"id":"CVE-2017-18678","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-18678","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:05:29.128Z","title":"An attacker can crash system processes via a Serializable object because of missing exception handling.","description":"An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with KK(4.4), L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.x) software. An attacker can crash system processes via a Serializable object because of missing exception handling. The Samsung IDs are SVE-2017-8109, SVE-2017-8110, SVE-2017-8115, SVE-2017-8118, and SVE-2017-8119 (April 2017).","published":"2020-04-07T16:15:17.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:13:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-755"],"affected":["google/android"],"epss":{"score":0.00415,"percentile":0.35578,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.41%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18678","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}