CVE-2019-17668 — Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note10 devices allow unlock operations via unregistered f

Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note10 devices allow unlock operations via unregistered fingerprints in certain situations involving a third-party screen protector.

01What is this vulnerability?

Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note10 devices allow unlock operations via unregistered fingerprints in certain situations involving a third-party screen protector.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-10-17T11:05:49.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T01:47:13.536Z

09References

• www.forbes.com — https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/10/15/samsung-galaxy-s10-note10-pl…
• www.engadget.com — https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/17/samsung-patch-fingerprint-reader/
• news.ycombinator.com — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21280205