CVE-2020-11148 Use after free in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables

Medium 6.7 Published 21 Jan 2021 Updated 4 Aug 2024

A use-after-free vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon HIDL allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges via race conditions.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2020-11148?

CVE-2020-11148 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables, published on 21 Jan 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Use after free issue in HIDL while using callback to post event in Rx thread when internal mutex is not acquired and meantime close is triggered and callback instance is deleted in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11148?

It affects 246 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8017, Qualcomm Apq8053, Qualcomm Msm8917, Qualcomm Msm8953, Qualcomm Pm215, Qualcomm Pm3003a and 240 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11148?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11148 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2020-11148 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11148 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-3wqp-fp8q-5rmq.