What is CVE-2021-22495?

CVE-2021-22495 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-01-05.

How severe is CVE-2021-22495?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Google Android

CVE-2021-22495

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.x), P(9.0), Q(10.0), and R(11.0) (Exynos chipsets) software. The Mali GPU driver allows out-of-bounds access and a device reset. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-19174 (January 2021).

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2021-01-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (17.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 17th percentile — 17.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Android — versions 8.0, 8.1, 9.0
Samsung Exynos

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-22495?: CVE-2021-22495 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-01-05.
How severe is CVE-2021-22495?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.