Cyber Resilience

CVE-2017-18153

High

Published: 26 November 2024

Published
26 November 2024
Modified
09 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0009 26.4th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2017-18153 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Qualcomm 9206 Lte Modem Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 26.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A race condition exists in a driver potentially leading to a use-after-free condition.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

qualcomm
9206 lte modem firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8017 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ar6003 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
snapdragon 630 mobile firmware
all versions
qualcomm
snapdragon 636 mobile firmware
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References