CVE-2023-21474 Path traversal in Samsung Mobile Devices

What is CVE-2023-21474?

CVE-2023-21474 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Samsung Android, published on 3 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Intent redirection vulnerability in SecSettings prior to SMR Apr-2022 Release 1 allows attackers to access arbitrary file with system privilege.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-21474?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Samsung Android.

How do I fix CVE-2023-21474?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-21474 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2023-21474 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-21474 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Samsung Android

• CVE-2025-21042 Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2025-21043 Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• 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-v2r3-2vm5-58f5.