The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the country’s nodal agency to deal with cybersecurity threats, reportedly issued a high-risk security alert for four versions of Samsung phones.
Samsung mobile Android versions 11, 12, 13, and 14 are the four versions identified by the government agency.
The agency said multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the four Samsung phone versions, potentially allowing hackers to bypass the security restrictions and access sensitive information.
The vulnerabilities impact various Samsung devices, such as the Galaxy S23 series, Galaxy Flip 5, Galaxy Fold 5, and other devices running Android versions 11, 12, 13, and 14.
These Samsung phones have security problems because of issues like improper access control in Knox features, issues in the facial recognition software, authorisation problems in the AR Emoji app, among other issues, CERT-In said in the advisory issued on Tuesday, media reports in India said.
These vulnerabilities can allow hackers to “trigger heap overflow and stack-based buffer overflow”, the government agency said.
Attackers can also access the user’s SIM PIN, send broadcast, access the AR Emoji app data and access several other sensitive information in the user’s phone, CERT-In said.
South Korea-based tech giant phone users of 11, 12, 13, and 14 versions should apply the appropriate security updates as mentioned by the phone manufacturer in its advisory, the agency said.
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