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CVE-2024-46921 — Samsung Exynos 1080 Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor and Modem Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 9110, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, Modem 5400. UE does not limit the number of attempts for the RRC Setup procedure in the 5G SA, leading to a denial of service (battery-drain attack).

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2025-01-13
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Affected products

  • samsung / exynos_1080_firmware
  • samsung / exynos_1280_firmware
  • samsung / exynos_1330_firmware
  • samsung / exynos_1380_firmware
  • samsung / exynos_1480_firmware
  • samsung / exynos_2100_firmware

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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