CVE-2020-11299
Published: 17 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-11299 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 41.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-3653
Vulnerability details
Buffer overflow can occur in video while playing the non-standard clip in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.