CVE-2019-20612 — An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) and O(8.x) (Broadcom Wi-Fi, and SEC Wi-Fi chipsets) software. Wi-Fi allows a denial of service via TCP SYN packets. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-13162 (March 2019).

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) and O(8.x) (Broadcom Wi-Fi, and SEC Wi-Fi chipsets) software. Wi-Fi allows a denial of service via TCP SYN packets. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-13162 (March 2019).

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: 2020-03-24T19:27:49.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:46:09.983Z

09References

• security.samsungmobile.com — https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb