Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-11170

Critical

Published: 22 February 2021

Published
22 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0033 56.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-11170 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Sdx55 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 43.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Out of bound memory access while playing music playbacks with crafted vorbis content due to improper checks in header extraction in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice &…

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Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

qualcomm
apq8009 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8009w firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8017 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8030 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8037 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8052 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8053 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8056 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8060a firmware
all versions
qualcomm
apq8062 firmware
all versions
+495 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

References