CVE-2025-21048 Path traversal in Samsung Mobile Devices

What is CVE-2025-21048?

CVE-2025-21048 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Samsung Android, published on 10 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Relative path traversal in Knox Enterprise prior to SMR Oct-2025 Release 1 allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-21048?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Samsung Android.

How do I fix CVE-2025-21048?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-21048 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-2025-21048 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21048 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-5j5m-wvrj-4rpf.