CVE-2025-47380
Qualcomm Wsa8845H Firmware
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-47380 is a high-severity Untrusted Pointer Dereference (CWE-822) vulnerability in Qualcomm Wsa8845H Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 0.1th 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — 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-2025-47380 is a memory corruption vulnerability, classified under CWE-822 (Untrusted Pointer Dereference), that occurs while preprocessing IOCTLs in the sensors component. It affects Qualcomm products and was published on 2026-01-07 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High), reflecting a local attack vector (AV:L), low attack complexity (AC:L), low privileges required (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N), and unchanged scope (S:U) with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H).
A local attacker possessing low privileges can exploit this vulnerability by crafting and sending malicious IOCTLs to the affected sensors preprocessing functionality. Successful exploitation enables memory corruption, potentially allowing the attacker to achieve high-level impacts such as unauthorized data access, modification of system integrity, or denial of service through crashes or code execution.
Qualcomm's January 2026 security bulletin addresses this vulnerability, providing details on affected versions and recommended patches or mitigations, available at https://docs.qualcomm.com/product/publicresources/securitybulletin/january-2026-bulletin.html.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-1250
Vulnerability Data
Memory corruption while preprocessing IOCTLs in sensors.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover instances where untrusted data is turned into a pointer and dereferenced.
Validating all information inputs stops untrusted values from being accepted and converted into dereferenceable pointers.
Memory-protection mechanisms limit the damage from an invalid pointer dereference without stopping the root coding flaw.
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.
Secure SDLC practices directly prevent introduction of untrusted pointer handling during development.
Runtime monitoring of software and data can detect adverse events resulting from exploitation of the weakness.
Vulnerability identification processes can discover instances of this weakness via code review or scanning.
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.
Security testing can detect pointer-dereference flaws before release.
Secure development lifecycle includes pointer-safety practices that reduce untrusted pointer dereference risk.
Application security requirements can mandate validation of pointers obtained from untrusted sources.
Secure architecture principles discourage direct use of untrusted values as pointers.
Secure coding standards explicitly forbid dereferencing pointers derived from untrusted input.