CVE-2021-25337: Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Access Control Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Samsung mobile devices contain an improper access control vulnerability in clipboard service which allows untrusted applications to read or write arbitrary files. This vulnerability was chained with CVE-2021-25369 and CVE-2021-25370.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Samsung mobile devices contain an improper access control vulnerability in clipboard service allowing untrusted applications to access files.
- Who is affected
- Users of Samsung mobile devices.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Update to the latest firmware provided by Samsung.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25337
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2021-25337Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 85% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-25337 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Samsung Mobile Devices
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-21042: Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-11-10
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-21043: Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-10-02
- criticalexploitedCVE-2022-22265: Samsung Mobile Devices Use-After-Free Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-09-18
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-25489: Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Input Validation Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-06-29
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-25372: Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Boundary Check Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-06-29
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-25371: Samsung Mobile Devices Unspecified Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-06-29
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