Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2021-25369

Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Access Control Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Samsung
Product Mobile Devices
Weakness CWE-200

The vulnerability

Samsung mobile devices using Mali GPU contains an improper access control vulnerability in sec_log file. Exploitation of the vulnerability exposes sensitive kernel information to the userspace. This vulnerability was chained with CVE-2021-25337 and CVE-2021-25370.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 29 November 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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