CVE-2026-20438 | MediaTek MT8793 MAE toctou
A vulnerability was found in MediaTek MT2718, MT6899, MT6991, MT8168, MT8169, MT8186, MT8188, MT8678, MT8695, MT8696 and MT8793. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component MAE. Such manipulation leads to time-of-check time-of-use.
This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-20438. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.
It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.