Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-3686

Critical

Published: 21 January 2021

Published
21 January 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 0.0022 44.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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

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

qualcomm
apq8009
all versions
qualcomm
apq8009w
all versions
qualcomm
apq8017
all versions
qualcomm
apq8030
all versions
qualcomm
apq8037
all versions
qualcomm
apq8052
all versions
qualcomm
apq8053
all versions
qualcomm
apq8056
all versions
qualcomm
apq8060a
all versions
qualcomm
apq8062
all versions
+482 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