CVE-2019-14116
Privilege escalation by using an altered debug policy image can occur as the XPU protecting the debug policy regions are disabled during the crash dump boot flow in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT,…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Privilege escalation by using an altered debug policy image can occur as the XPU protecting the debug policy regions are disabled during the crash dump boot flow in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in IPQ6018
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.19% probability · 9th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- qualcomm/ipq6018 firmware
- Source
- product-security@qualcomm.com
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.