Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-53028

Race Condition in Qualcomm Qam8255P Firmware

Published
03 March 2025
Modified
06 March 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 0.00086 0.4th percentile
Risk Priority 53 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-53028 is a high-severity Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CWE-367) vulnerability in Qualcomm Qam8255P Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Path Interception (T1034); ranked at the 0.4th 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 AC-25 (Reference Monitor) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — 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-2024-53028 is a memory corruption vulnerability that may occur while processing a message from the frontend during allocation, associated with CWE-367 (Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition for Allocate/Deallocate). It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High), with vector AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability affects components in Qualcomm products, as documented in their security advisories.

A local attacker with low privileges can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation enables high-impact consequences, including unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, modification of data or system integrity, and denial of service through availability disruption.

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 mitigations or patches. Security practitioners should consult this advisory for specific remediation steps tailored to impacted devices.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Memory corruption may occur while processing message from frontend during allocation.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1034 Path Interception Persistence
**This technique has been deprecated.
T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may circumvent mechanisms designed to control privilege elevation to gain higher-level permissions.
T1574 Hijack Execution Flow Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the way operating systems run programs.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

qualcomm
qam8255p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8295p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8620p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8650p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qam8775p firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qamsrv1h firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qamsrv1m firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qca6574a firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qca6574au firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qca6595 firmware
all versions
+26 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V15.4.2
  • V17.2.6

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

A reference monitor that is always invoked and analyzable structurally eliminates the non-atomic check-then-use pattern underlying TOCTOU.

Access enforcement that performs an atomic check-and-use decision directly stops the window in which a TOCTOU race can be exploited.

Process isolation limits the blast radius of a successful TOCTOU exploitation but does not remove the race itself.

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 directly include coding standards and reviews that prevent TOCTOU race conditions.

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.

none

Reliable, synchronized time across systems narrows the exploitable window in which a resource state can change between a security check and its use.

References