{"id":221807,"date":"2025-09-13T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/samsung-patches-actively-exploited-zero-day-reported-by-whatsapp"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:30:08","slug":"samsung-patches-actively-exploited-zero-day-reported-by-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/samsung-patches-actively-exploited-zero-day-reported-by-whatsapp","title":{"rendered":"Samsung patches actively exploited zero-day reported by WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/samsung-patches-actively-exploited-zero-day-reported-by-whatsapp2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samsung has patched a remote code execution vulnerability that was exploited in zero-day attacks targeting its Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked as CVE-2025\u201321043, this critical security flaw affects Samsung devices running Android 13 or later and was reported by the security teams of Meta and WhatsApp on August 13.<\/p>\n<p>As Samsung explains in a <a href=\"https:\/\/security.samsungmobile.com\/securityUpdate.smsb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recently updated advisory<\/a>, this vulnerability was discovered in libimagecodec.quram.so (a closed-source image parsing library developed by Quramsoft that implements support for various image formats) and is caused by an <a href=\"https:\/\/cwe.mitre.org\/data\/definitions\/787.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">out-of-bounds write<\/a> weakness that allows attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable devices remotely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has patched a remote code execution vulnerability that was exploited in zero-day attacks targeting its Android devices. Tracked as CVE-2025\u201321043, this critical security flaw affects Samsung devices running Android 13 or later and was reported by the security teams of Meta and WhatsApp on August 13. As Samsung explains in a recently updated advisory, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}