CVE-2023-21446 Information disclosure in MyFiles

What is CVE-2023-21446?

CVE-2023-21446 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Samsung Android, published on 9 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper input validation in MyFiles prior to version 12.2.09 in Android R(11), 13.1.03.501 in Android S( 12) and 14.1.00.422 in Android T(13) allows local attacker to access data of MyFiles.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-21446?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Samsung Android.

How do I fix CVE-2023-21446?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-21446 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-21446 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-21446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2021-25487 Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Read Exploited High 7.3
• CVE-2021-25394 Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Exploited Medium 6.4
• CVE-2021-25395 Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Exploited Medium 6.4

All Samsung Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jqvq-vhfp-wgwr.