CVE-2025-21042: Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write 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 out-of-bounds write vulnerability in libimagecodec.quram.so. This vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- An out-of-bounds write vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
- Who is affected
- Users of Samsung mobile devices are affected.
- Urgency
- Immediate remediation is necessary as the vulnerability is critical and actively exploited.
- Action
- Update Samsung mobile devices to the latest firmware.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21042
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-2025-21042Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 96% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-21042 | 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-2025-21043: 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-2021-25394: Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-06-29
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-25489: Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Input Validation Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-06-29
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-25371: Samsung Mobile Devices Unspecified Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-06-29
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-25395: Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-06-29
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