Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-48178 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-48178 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-48178?
- Informational severity, published 5 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Samsung Semiconductor Processor Power Controller.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-48178?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-48178 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access or from the adjacent network, in device firmware.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-48178?
- Check whether you run Samsung Semiconductor Processor Power Controller. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a race condition in global variable access within the PPC (processor power controller) component, resulting in out-of-bounds memory reads or writes. This requires local or adjacent network access to trigger. An attacker exploiting this could leak sensitive data or cause denial of service through memory corruption.
Affected products
- Samsung Semiconductor Processor Power Controller
Timeline
- 2026-11-05: disclosed