Samsung today shared the details of its April 2026 security patch. The full update includes 47 improvements for Galaxy devices. If you own a Snapdragon or MediaTek chip device, expect 4 fewer security improvements.

If you’re on a recent Galaxy flagship, this update closes off some genuinely uncomfortable attack paths, especially the kind that rely on brief physical access. Fourteen critical vulnerabilities from Google sit at the core of this SMR.

Several of them target core Android layers where privilege escalation and remote code execution can quietly expand the vulnerability surface.

April 2026 patch from Samsung includes fixes from the Android Security Bulletin alongside its own SVE stack and Samsung Semiconductor patches. Google handles the platform-level cracks, Samsung tightens the device-specific seams.

Android Security Bulletin

Google Patches for the following CVEs from Android Security Bulletin are applied in this Security Maintenance Release – April 2026 Package.

Critical – 14

CVE-2023-20713, CVE-2025-47392, CVE-2025-64505, CVE-2025-64720, CVE-2025-65018, CVE-2026-0039, CVE-2026-0040, CVE-2026-0041, CVE-2026-0042, CVE-2026-0043, CVE-2026-0044, CVE-2026-0049, CVE-2026-0052, CVE-2026-0080

High – 18

CVE-2025-22424, CVE-2025-22426, CVE-2025-48600, CVE-2025-48651(A-467762899), CVE-2026-0016, CVE-2026-0018, CVE-2026-0036, CVE-2026-0045, CVE-2026-0046, CVE-2026-0048, CVE-2026-0050, CVE-2026-0055, CVE-2026-0056, CVE-2026-0058, CVE-2026-0059, CVE-2026-0067, CVE-2026-0079, CVE-2026-21381

Moderate – 1

CVE-2026-20435

Samsung Semiconductor patch

Samsung also patched four high-severity vulnerabilities tied to its semiconductor stack. Anything touching firmware or low-level hardware abstraction layers can undermine the entire security baseline if left exposed.

Samsung Semiconductor patch is also included in this Security Maintenance Release for the following CVEs:

High – 4

CVE-2025-52908, CVE-2025-52909, CVE-2025-54601, CVE-2025-54602

Samsung Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Samsung’s own Vulnerabilities and Exposures reveal a pattern. Several flaws revolve around physical access abuse and privilege misuse.

The company has confirmed that most of these SVEs affect devices running Android 14, 15, and even early Android 16 builds.

Samsung Mobile provides 10 Samsung Vulnerabilities and Exposures (SVE) items described below:

High

SVE-2025-2188(CVE-2026-21007)
Affected versions: Android 14, 15, 16

SVE-2025-2589(CVE-2026-21010)
Affected versions: Android 14, 15, 16

SVE-2026-0775(CVE-2026-21003)
Affected versions: Selected Android 14, 15, 16 devices

Moderate

SVE-2025-1863(CVE-2026-21006)
Affected versions: Android 15

SVE-2025-2300(CVE-2026-21008)
Affected versions: Android 14, 15, 16

SVE-2025-2443(CVE-2026-21009)
Affected versions: Android 14, 15, 16

SVE-2026-0025(CVE-2026-21012)
Affected versions: Android 14, 15, 16

SVE-2026-0102(CVE-2026-21011)
Affected versions: Android 14, 15, 16

Samsung has started pushing its April 2026 Security Maintenance Release.

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