CVE-2026-21087 (GCVE-0-2026-21087)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-09 04:47 – Updated: 2026-09-11 03:56
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Out-of-bounds write in libmdnie.so prior to SMR Sep-2026 Release 1 allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code with system server privilege.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-10 00:00 UTC
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung Mobile | Samsung Mobile Devices |
Unaffected:
SMR Sep-2026 Release in Android 15, 16, 17 , < *
(semver)
|
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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