What is CVE-2020-10844?

CVE-2020-10844 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-03-24.

How severe is CVE-2020-10844?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-10844 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Out-of-bounds Read in Google Android

CVE-2020-10844

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.x), P(9.x), and Q(10.0) software. There is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in media.audio_policy. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-16333 (February 2020).

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2020-03-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Android — versions 8.0, 8.1, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

Public proof-of-concept exploits

he1m4n6a/cve-db

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-10844?: CVE-2020-10844 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2020-10844?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-10844 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.