CVE-2020-11231 Race condition in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile

Medium 6.7 Published 7 Apr 2021 Updated 4 Aug 2024

Concurrent thread execution causes pointer corruption and heap corruption in Qualcomm Snapdragon components, potentially allowing code execution or privilege escalation.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2020-11231?

CVE-2020-11231 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, published on 7 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Two threads call one or both functions concurrently leading to corruption of pointers and reference counters which in turn can lead to heap corruption in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile

Weakness: CWE-415

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11231?

It affects 215 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware, Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, Qualcomm Msm8917 Firmware, Qualcomm Msm8953 Firmware, Qualcomm Pm215 Firmware and 209 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11231?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-11231 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11231 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as 2713479, A-170141832, GHSA-ccm8-j9m5-h2cw, PUB-A-170141832.