CVE-2020-11252 Information disclosure in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking
Enabling memory dumps disables TrustZone protections, allowing attackers to access sensitive memory contents in Qualcomm Snapdragon devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-11252?
CVE-2020-11252 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, published on 7 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Trustzone initialization code will disable xPU`s when memory dumps are enabled and lead to information disclosure in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11252?
It affects 310 products.
Products include Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8031 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8035 Firmware, Qualcomm Csr8811 Firmware, Qualcomm Csra6620 Firmware, Qualcomm Csra6640 Firmware and 304 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-11252?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11252 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-11252 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11252 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2023-28562 Buffer Copy Without Checking Size of Input in QESL
- CVE-2022-40514 Buffer copy without checking size of input in WLAN Firmware
- CVE-2022-22096 Memory corruption in Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Mobile
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r6gp-469r-cpj7.