CVE-2025-20961 Privilege escalation in Samsung Mobile Devices

What is CVE-2025-20961?

CVE-2025-20961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Samsung Android, published on 7 May 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

Improper handling of insufficient permission or privileges in sepunion service prior to SMR May-2025 Release 1 allows local privileged attackers to access files with system privilege.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-20961?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Samsung Android.

How do I fix CVE-2025-20961?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20961 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-20961 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20961 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-6q4v-6637-v9c9.