CVE-2018-11259
Due to Improper Access Control of NAND-based EFS in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear, From fastboot on a NAND-based device, the EFS partition can be erased.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Due to Improper Access Control of NAND-based EFS in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear, From fastboot on a NAND-based device, the EFS partition can be erased. Apps processor then has non-secure world full read/write access to the partition until the modem boots and configures the EFS partition addresses in its MPU partition.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.7 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.20% probability · 9th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-732
- Affected
- qualcomm/mdm9206 firmware · qualcomm/mdm9607 firmware · qualcomm/mdm9635m firmware · qualcomm/mdm9640 firmware · qualcomm/mdm9650 firmware · qualcomm/mdm9655 firmware · qualcomm/msm8909w firmware · qualcomm/msm8996au firmware · qualcomm/sd 210 firmware · qualcomm/sd 212 firmware · qualcomm/sd 205 firmware · qualcomm/sd 410 firmware · qualcomm/sd 412 firmware · qualcomm/sd 425 firmware · qualcomm/sd 427 firmware · qualcomm/sd 430 firmware · qualcomm/sd 435 firmware · qualcomm/sd 450 firmware · qualcomm/sd 615 firmware · qualcomm/sd 616 firmware · +18 more
- Source
- product-security@qualcomm.com
EPSS 0.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletinsVendor Advisory
- https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletinsVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.