CVE-2020-8899

critical

Description

There is a buffer overwrite vulnerability in the Quram qmg library of Samsung's Android OS versions O(8.x), P(9.0) and Q(10.0). An unauthenticated, unauthorized attacker sending a specially crafted MMS to a vulnerable phone can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow in the Quram image codec leading to an arbitrary remote code execution (RCE) without any user interaction. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-16747.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/366027

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157620/Samsung-Android-Remote-Code-Execution.html

https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2002

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-05-06

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.10201