According to a weblog by Project Zero, hackers can acquire entry to pick out smartphones from Samsung, Vivo and in-house Pixel smartphones which have as many as 18 0-day vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are linked to units with the Samsung-made Exynos chip; exactly the modem which permits hackers to do distant code execution.

In less complicated phrases, hackers can remotely acquire entry to pick out smartphones with Exynos modems on the baseband stage simply with the telephone quantity. Not simply telephones however a number of different merchandise that use Exynos Auto T5123 chipset are additionally weak.

Which smartphones are affected by Exynos modem vulnerability?

The Google Pixel 6 and Google Pixel 7 sequence of smartphones are affected by this compromise; this consists of the Pixel 6a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.

Similarly, the Samsung Galaxy S22 (review) Exynos variants are additionally affected together with a number of different units like Galaxy M33, Galaxy M13, Galaxy M12s, Galaxy A71, Galaxy A53, Galaxy A33, Galaxy A21s, Galaxy A13, Galaxy A12 and GalaxyA04 sequence of smartphones.

Lastly, Vivo smartphones such because the Vivo S16, S15, S6, X70, X60 and Vivo X30 sequence are additionally affected by this vulnerability.

While a easy safety patch from OEM ought to repair the difficulty customers with the aforementioned smartphones are suggested to disable Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) to make their smartphones safe. And replace their smartphone as quickly as potential to make them safe.