CVE-2021-25395 Samsung CVE debrief

Who should care

Samsung mobile device administrators, enterprise mobility and endpoint security teams, and users or organizations that rely on Samsung mobile devices for managed or personal use.

Technical summary

The available official sources identify the issue as a race condition in Samsung Mobile Devices. CISA added the CVE to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-06-29 and set a remediation due date of 2023-07-20. The corpus does not include deeper technical details about the vulnerable component, attack path, or impact, so the safest interpretation is that affected Samsung mobile devices should be updated according to vendor instructions as soon as possible.

Defensive priority

High. CISA KEV inclusion indicates known exploitation, so this should be prioritized ahead of routine patch work, especially in managed fleets and internet-connected mobile environments.

Recommended defensive actions

• Apply Samsung updates according to vendor instructions as soon as they are available.
• Verify which Samsung mobile device models and software versions in your environment are affected.
• Track completion against the CISA KEV due date of 2023-07-20 for remediation planning.
• If updates are unavailable for any deployed devices, discontinue use of the affected product as CISA recommends.
• Review Samsung’s security update notice referenced in the CISA KEV notes and confirm remediation status across fleets.

Evidence notes

Evidence is limited to official sources in the supplied corpus: the CISA KEV entry identifies the product as Samsung Mobile Devices, the vulnerability type as a race condition, and marks it as known exploited with dateAdded 2023-06-29 and dueDate 2023-07-20. The corpus also includes official CVE.org and NVD links, but it does not provide CVSS scoring or a more detailed technical impact description.

Official resources