What is CVE-2018-21043?

CVE-2018-21043 is a low-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2020-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-21043?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Google Android

CVE-2018-21043

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.x) and P(9.0) (Exynos 9810 chipsets) software. There is information disclosure about a kernel pointer in the g2d_drv driver because of logging. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-13035 (December 2018).

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2020-04-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 2nd percentile — 2.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Android — versions 8.0, 8.1, 9.0
Samsung Exynos 9810

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-21043?: CVE-2018-21043 is a low-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2020-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-21043?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.