As Samsung sells its storage devices into diverse consumer markets, it makes its Magician software available for platforms like Windows, macOS, and Android. CVE‑2025‑57836 affects only the Windows version of the software.
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Zaranthos Mostly only ever use the software to install firmware updates on Samsung SSD's, then I uninstall it. Probably wouldn't ever let stuff like this run on a corporate network either since it's pretty useless to the average user and just consumes resources running in the background. Reply
Gururu I got 9 a few months ago and I found the interface to be much nicer. No problems with the software and I use it mainly to monitor drive health. Reply
Aurn Unfortunately, version 9.0.0 does not work for me. Causes BSOD "Multiple IRP Complete Requests" at the end of installation. This happens on two PCs with completely different hardware, on Windows 11 and Windows 10. Version 8.3.2 does the same, so I had to stay on 8.2.0 (have not tried 8.3.0 and 8.3.1) Reply
BFG-9000 They should've never changed it to be a bloated Electron app. That launches a bundled version of Chromium just to render it, which goes outdated much more quickly than they update the app. The problem is browsers are updated all of the time for security threats, so everybody knows to reverse-engineer those updates to find vulnerabilities affecting only older versions of browsers. And Samsung has you use an embedded older browser because they don't update it often. I see the release notes for 9.0.0 only lists as changed: Enhanced User Convenience • Improved the UI/UX to enhance user convenience. Users can easily use various features with a more intuitive and streamlined screen. And now they have removed all previous versions for download, including the pre-Electron versions that wouldn't have this security issue Reply
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