Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Vulnerability
CVE-2021-25395 · Samsung Mobile Devices · Published 2021-06-11
How bad would it be?
6.4 out of 10
CVSS rates it medium.
How likely is it to be used?
0.4%
Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).
Is it already being used?
Yes
CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 1198 days ago (2023-07-20).
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if updates are unavailable
Samsung mobile devices contain a race condition vulnerability within the MFC charger driver that leads to a use-after-free allowing for a write given a radio privilege is compromised.
A race condition in MFC charger driver prior to SMR MAY-2021 Release 1 allows local attackers to bypass signature check given a radio privilege is compromised.
Understand the kind of weakness behind this flaw. These resources teach the weakness, rather than reproduce this specific CVE. Follow the vendor's advice above to fix the affected product.
Race conditions
Another operation changes shared state between a check and the action that relies on it.
CWE is a catalogue of weakness types. Labels come from the sources shown and can differ or change. Resource matches reviewed 16 October 2026.
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