# Protection Mechanism Failure in bootloader prior to SMR Oct-2024 Release 1 allows physical attackers to reset lockscreen failure count by hardware fault injection.

CVE record · `CVE-2024-49422`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-49422`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.2 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** SamsungMobile
- **Technologies:** [Samsung Mobile Devices](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/samsung-mobile-devices.md)
- **Published:** 31 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 31 Dec 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: SamsungMobile) at 31 Dec 2024, 08:39 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Samsung Mobile. Product: Samsung Mobile Devices.
  - unaffected: `SMR Oct-2024 Release in Select Android 13 devices using Unisoc chipset`
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

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## Severity and exploitation

- 5.2 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L`, from CNA (SamsungMobile)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0020, the 10th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 Dec 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-49422](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49422)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-49422](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49422)

### References from the CNA

- <https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb?year=2024&month=10>

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