An issue was discovered in DPU in Samsung Mobile Processor Exynos 1280, 2200, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 1680, and 2600. An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Exynos DPU driver (due to missing input length validation in color mode LUT parsing) leads to kernel memory corruption and potential privilege escalation.
CVE-2026-23791
Score 4.2 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-14. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.2; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.2
- EG Score
- 4.2(high)
- EG Risk
- 19(Track)EG Risk 19/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity42% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 14, 2026
Last Modified
September 22, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Sep 14, 2026CVE-2026-23791 | Support | Samsung Semiconductor Global
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/support/quality-support/product-security-updates/cve-2026-23791/Product Security Update | Support | Samsung Semiconductor Global
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/support/quality-support/product-security-updates/Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-23791(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 28× in last 30d)
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- 2026-09-24 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
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