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CVE-2025-21043: Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability

CVE-2025-21043 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects Samsung Mobile Devices, along with 1 other product in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-10-02, which means exploitation in the wild has been observed.

Vulnerability description

Out-of-bounds write in libimagecodec.quram.so prior to SMR Sep-2025 Release 1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v3.1 9.8: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
  • Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
  • Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
  • User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
  • Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
  • Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
  • Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.

Underlying weakness

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected products

  • Samsung Android: 13.0; 13.0 smr-apr-2022-r1; 13.0 smr-apr-2023-r1; 13.0 smr-apr-2024-r1; 13.0 smr-apr-2025-r1; 13.0 smr-aug-2022-r1; 13.0 smr-aug-2023-r1; 13.0 smr-aug-2024-r1; 13.0 smr-aug-2025-r1; 13.0 smr-dec-2021-r1; 13.0 smr-dec-2022-r1; 13.0 smr-dec-2023-r1

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