Solana Seeker: Pwn'ed out the gate?

Solana Seeker: Pwn'ed out the gate?

By Ph03nix | Tech hall of shame | 10 Dec 2025


I had a lot of high hopes for the Solana seeker.

I personally like Solana.

Here's the sad story:

Ledger found an unfixable flaw in the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chip that can lead to full device takeover and private key theft.....

https://www.ledger.com/blog-is-your-smartphones-hardware-safe

The darn thing just came out :(

The answer to the question in the URL is... no

No software update can fix the issue, as the vulnerability is built into the chip’s hardware.

The chip is vulnerable to a boot-phase attack. The chip is in more phones than this one.

I will put it simple. It's electromagnetic fault injection of the SoC.

While the chance of the attack working is less than 1%, it is also the type attack that can be performed in quick succession.

Mediatech, the manufacturer of the SoC said themselves the chip was meant for consumer phones, and not for finance or security.

“For products handling sensitive cryptographic material, manufacturers should implement specific protections against physical attacks,” MediaTek said.

A good summary: The Solana Seeker was doomed out the gate, because they used a SoC not meant to be used in a secure environment.

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