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CVE-2023-42540
Improper access control vulnerability in Samsung Account prior to version 14.5.01.1 allows attackers to access sensitive information via…
Medium4.0EPSS 0.19%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Samsung Mobile
Description
Improper access control vulnerability in Samsung Account prior to version 14.5.01.1 allows attackers to access sensitive information via implicit intent.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Samsung Mobile
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung MobileCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-284 and its CVEs
Affected products
Samsung Mobile · Samsung Account
- unaffected 14.5.01.1
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-42540)Record last updated .