Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-28562

Critical

Published: 05 September 2023

Published
05 September 2023
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 0.0013 32.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-28562 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Memory corruption while handling payloads from remote ESL.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

qualcomm
aqt1000 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
fastconnect 6200 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
fastconnect 6800 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qca6391 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qca6420 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qca6430 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcn7606 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcs410 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcs610 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
sc8180x\+sdx55 firmware
all versions
+58 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.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References