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Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

CVE-2019-20610

High
8.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.X) and O(8.X) (Exynos 7570, 7870, 7880, 7885, 8890, 8895, and 9810 chipsets) software. A double-fetch vulnerability in Trustlet allows arbitrary TEE code execution. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-13910 (April 2019).

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published