CVE-2019-14116 Privilege escalation in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking

High 7.8 Published 16 Apr 2020 Updated 5 Aug 2024

Attackers can escalate privileges by exploiting disabled XPU protections during crash dump boot flows in 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-2019-14116?

CVE-2019-14116 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Ipq6018 Firmware, published on 16 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Privilege escalation by using an altered debug policy image can occur as the XPU protecting the debug policy regions are disabled during the crash dump boot flow in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in IPQ6018

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14116?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Qualcomm Ipq6018 Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14116?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-14116 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-14116 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14116 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Ipq6018 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-j9r4-wggr-vqrx.