MediaTek, Inc. MediaTek chipset

CVE-2026-20498
MEDIUM 6.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
MediaTek
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In geniezone, there is a possible escalation of privilege due to a missing permission 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: ALPS10900493; Issue ID: MSV-6765.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-1287 — Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
MediaTek, Inc. · MediaTek chipsetaffected MT6991 ; affected MT8768 ; affected MT8791T ; affected MT8792 ; affected MT8796 ; affected MT8799

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD