CVE-2018-13909 Race condition in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music

High 7.0 Published Updated

A race condition in the bootloader's hash system calls can corrupt parallel hashing state, leading to unexpected behavior in various Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2018-13909?

CVE-2018-13909 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, published on 14 Jun 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Metadata verification and partial hash system calls by bootloader may corrupt parallel hashing state in progress resulting in unexpected behavior in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, MDM9655, QCS605, Qualcomm 215, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 439 / SD 429, SD 450, SD 625, SD 632, SD 636, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 8CX, SDA660, SDM439, SDM630, SDM660, Snapdragon_High_Med_2016, SXR1130

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-13909?

It affects 30 products.

Products include Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9607 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9650 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9655 Firmware, Qualcomm Qcs605 Firmware, Qualcomm Qm215 Firmware and 24 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-13909?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-13909 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-13909 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-13909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x4m6-w9w7-f45v.

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