Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-25677

Medium

Published: 13 December 2022

Published
13 December 2022
Modified
22 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-25677 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8096Au Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Memory corruption in diag due to use after free while processing dci packet in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, 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
apq8096au firmware
all versions
qualcomm
aqt1000 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ar9380 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
csr8811 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq4018 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq4019 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq4028 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq4029 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq5010 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq5018 firmware
all versions
+133 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-416

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

References