Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-43538

Critical

Published: 03 June 2024

Published
03 June 2024
Modified
27 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0006 17.6th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-43538 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 17.6th 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 TZ Secure OS while Tunnel Invoke Manager initialization.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

qualcomm
aqt1000 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ar8035 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
fastconnect 6200 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
fastconnect 6800 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
fastconnect 6900 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
fastconnect 7800 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8255p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8295p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8650p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8775p firmware
all versions
+127 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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
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