What is CVE-2020-26603?

CVE-2020-26603 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-10-06.

How severe is CVE-2020-26603?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Google Android

CVE-2020-26603

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.x), P(9.0), and Q(10.0) software. Sticker Center allows directory traversal for an unprivileged process to read arbitrary files. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-18433 (October 2020).

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2020-10-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (39.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 40th percentile — 39.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Android — versions 8.0, 8.1, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-26603?: CVE-2020-26603 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-10-06.
How severe is CVE-2020-26603?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.