CVE-2023-21492
Samsung Mobile Devices Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Log File Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 9 June 2023). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Kernel pointers are printed in the log file prior to SMR May-2023 Release 1 allows a privileged local attacker to bypass ASLR.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.55% probability · 85th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 19 May 2023 · due 9 June 2023
- Weakness
- CWE-532
- Affected
- samsung/android
- Source
- mobile.security@samsung.com
EPSS 2.6% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21492
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.