Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38423

High

Published: 04 November 2024

Published
04 November 2024
Modified
07 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38423 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Wsa8835 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.1th 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 processing GPU page table switch.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

qualcomm
wsa8835 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wsa8830 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wsa8815 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wsa8810 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn3990 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn3988 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn3980 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn3950 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn3910 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn3680b firmware
all versions
+196 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