CVE-2020-11298 Race condition 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 9 Jun 2021 Updated 4 Aug 2024

Attackers can exploit a race condition in shared memory buffers to escalate privileges or execute code on Qualcomm Snapdragon devices.

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-2020-11298?

CVE-2020-11298 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, published on 9 Jun 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

While waiting for a response to a callback or listener request, non-secure clients can change permissions to shared memory buffers used by HLOS Invoke Call to secure kernel 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-367

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11298?

It affects 111 products.

Products include Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8031 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8035 Firmware, Qualcomm Csra6620 Firmware, Qualcomm Csra6640 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9205 Firmware and 105 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11298?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11298 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-11298 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11298 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rffw-7gxg-mhhc.