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CVE-2025-20798In battery, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege if a…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.09%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 100% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In battery, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege if a malicious actor has already obtained the System privilege. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS10315812; Issue ID: MSV-5533.
Timeline
ID reserved
By MediaTek
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.09% · top 100% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
MediaTek, Inc. · MediaTek chipset
- affected MT2718
- affected MT6765
- affected MT6768
- affected MT6781
- affected MT6833
- affected MT6835
- affected MT6853
- affected MT6855
- affected MT6877
- affected MT6879
- affected MT6893
- affected MT6985
- affected MT6989
- affected MT6991
- affected MT8186
- affected MT8188
- affected MT8196
- affected MT8367
- affected MT8391
- affected MT8676
- affected MT8678
- affected MT8696
- affected MT8766
- affected MT8768
- affected MT8781
- affected MT8786
- affected MT8788E
- affected MT8791T
- affected MT8792
- affected MT8793
- affected MT8796
- affected MT8873
- affected MT8883
- affected MT8893
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-0968 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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