CVE-2025-27037 Use After Free in Camera Driver
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera driver allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges via malicious IOCTL calls.
- 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-2025-27037?
CVE-2025-27037 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Fastconnect 6800 Firmware, published on 24 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory corruption while processing config_dev IOCTL when camera kernel driver drops its reference to CPU buffers.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-27037?
It affects 37 products.
Products include Qualcomm Fastconnect 6800 Firmware, Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware, Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware, Qualcomm Qam8295p Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6391 Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6426 Firmware and 31 more.
How do I fix CVE-2025-27037?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-27037 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-2025-27037 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-27037 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Qualcomm Fastconnect 6800 Firmware
- CVE-2023-28581 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in WLAN Firmware
- CVE-2025-21455 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Camera_Linux
- CVE-2025-21474 Use After Free in BTHOST
- CVE-2024-45566 Use After Free in Camera Driver
- CVE-2024-33069 Use After Free in WLAN Host
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wmcq-ccc7-7x62.