Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-53024

Memory Safety in Qualcomm Qcs6490 Firmware

Published
03 March 2025
Modified
11 August 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0012 2th percentile
Risk Priority 54 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-53024 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Qualcomm Qcs6490 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499); ranked at the 2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2024-53024 is a memory corruption vulnerability, classified under CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference), occurring in the display driver during device detachment. It affects Qualcomm components, as detailed in their security bulletin. The vulnerability received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High), reflecting its potential severity with local access.

A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction required (UI:N). Successful exploitation enables high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), potentially allowing arbitrary code execution, data corruption, or system crashes within the unchanged scope (S:U).

Qualcomm's March 2025 security bulletin at https://docs.qualcomm.com/product/publicresources/securitybulletin/march-2025-bulletin.html provides details on affected products and recommended patches or mitigations for remediation.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Memory corruption in display driver while detaching a device.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
T1489 Service Stop Impact
Adversaries may stop or disable services on a system to render those services unavailable to legitimate users.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

qualcomm
qcs6490 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcs7230 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcs8250 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcs8300 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcs8550 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qcs9100 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qmp1000 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qrb5165m firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qrb5165n firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qsm8350 firmware
all versions
+156 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Developer testing and evaluation (including static analysis) directly finds null-dereference bugs before deployment.

Documented development standards and tools can enforce null-safety rules and safe pointer usage.

Engineering principles can mandate defensive coding such as explicit null checks before dereference.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices (static analysis, code review, safe coding standards) directly prevent NULL dereference bugs during development.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing can detect NULL dereference defects before release.

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates defensive coding practices that can prevent NULL dereferences.

prevents

Application security requirements can specify input validation and pointer-safety rules.

prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage defensive design that avoids unsafe pointer use.

prevents

Secure coding standards directly require NULL-pointer checks and safe dereference patterns.

References