CVE-2023-43540
Published: 04 March 2024
Summary
CVE-2023-43540 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 31.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-47946
Vulnerability details
Memory corruption while processing the IOCTL FM HCI WRITE request.
- 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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.