CVE-2020-3686
Published: 21 January 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-3686 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-24957
Vulnerability details
Possible memory out of bound issue during music playback when an incorrect bit stream content is copied into array without checking the length of array in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT,…
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Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & 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
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.