{"id":"CVE-2019-14116","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-14116","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:21:53.578Z","title":"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,…","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","published":"2020-04-16T11:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:17:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"product-security@qualcomm.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["qualcomm/ipq6018 firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.00192,"percentile":0.08805,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/april-2020-bulletin","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"product-security@qualcomm.com"},{"url":"https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/april-2020-bulletin","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14116","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}