CVE-2024-45554 Use After Free in DSP Service

High 7.8 Published Updated

A race condition in Qualcomm Snapdragon DSP service allows memory corruption, potentially enabling code execution or privilege escalation.

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-2024-45554?

CVE-2024-45554 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware, published on 6 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory corruption during concurrent SSR execution due to race condition on the global maps list.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45554?

It affects 21 products.

Products include Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware, Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6174a Firmware, Qualcomm Sdm429w Firmware, Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Mobile Firmware, Qualcomm Snapdragon 888\+ 5g Mobile Firmware and 15 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-45554?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-45554 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-2024-45554 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45554 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-4243-7hwp-6php.

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