Vulnerability · Published Sep 14, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2026-23789

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity double free in Exynos 850 firmware from Samsung. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in MFC in Samsung Mobile Processor and Wearable Processor Exynos 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 2600, 1680, W920, W930, and W1000. A double-free vulnerability in the Exynos MFC encoder driver (due to improper cleanup of dma_buf references during error handling) leads to kernel memory corruption and potential arbitrary code execution.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Samsung Exynos 850 firmware 0 – through 2025-12-23

Weakness: CWE-415 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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