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CVE-2026-21094 — Android

HIGH

CVE-2026-21094 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in samsung android. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

Improper input validation in wpa_supplicant prior to SMR Sep-2026 Release 1 allows adjacent attackers to write out-of-bounds memory.

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-2026-21094.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs5th percentile — riskier than 5% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.22%0.44%0.66%0.2%0.2%Oct 26Oct 26

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

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2026-21094 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 385,987 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

Improper input validation in wpa_supplicant prior to SMR Sep-2026 Release 1 allows adjacent attackers to write out-of-bounds memory.

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-2026-21094 yet — track the samsung android advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Improper input validation in wpa_supplicant prior to SMR Sep-2026 Release 1 allows adjacent attackers to write out-of-bounds memory.
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CVE-2026-21094: Android (High 8.8)