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CVE-2026-21086 — Android

HIGH

CVE-2026-21086 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in samsung android. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

Improper authorization in ProxyHandler prior to SMR Aug-2026 Release 1 allows local attackers to access proxy configuration.

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 9, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-21086.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.1%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs1th percentile — riskier than 1% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.20%0.41%0.61%0.1%0.1%Oct 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2026-21086 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 385,738 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

Improper authorization in ProxyHandler prior to SMR Aug-2026 Release 1 allows local attackers to access proxy configuration.

Affected Products

1 product · 95 configurations
OS
androidsamsung
4 versions
14.015.016.017.0

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every samsung android deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Remediation status

    No patch has shipped for CVE-2026-21086 yet — track the samsung android advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Improper authorization in ProxyHandler prior to SMR Aug-2026 Release 1 allows local attackers to access proxy configuration.
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CVE-2026-21086: Android (High 7.8)