Use after free in WLAN
Memory corruption in WLAN due to use after free
- Published
- Mar 10, 2023
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.1% · 2th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-416
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Action score
31
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.1%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 7.8
- CNA · qualcomm
- 6.7
- 1.1 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| qualcomm | apq8064au firmware | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:apq8064au_firmware |
| qualcomm | apq8064au | cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:apq8064au |
| qualcomm | apq8096au firmware | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:apq8096au_firmware |
| qualcomm | apq8096au | cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:apq8096au |
| qualcomm | aqt1000 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:aqt1000_firmware |
| qualcomm | aqt1000 | cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:aqt1000 |
| qualcomm | ar8031 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:ar8031_firmware |
| qualcomm | ar8031 | cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:ar8031 |
| qualcomm | csra6620 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:csra6620_firmware |
| qualcomm | csra6620 | cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:csra6620 |
| qualcomm | csra6640 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:csra6640_firmware |
| qualcomm | csra6640 | cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:csra6640 |
and 132 more
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- qualcomm apq8064au firmwareall versions
- qualcomm apq8096au firmwareall versions
- qualcomm aqt1000 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm ar8031 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm csra6620 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm csra6640 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm csrb31024 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm mdm9650 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm msm8996au firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6175a firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6310 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6320 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6420 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6430 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6564 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6564a firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6564au firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6574 firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6574a firmwareall versions
- qualcomm qca6574au firmwareall versions
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (qualcomm). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon
- APQ8064AU, APQ8096AU, AQT1000, AR8031, CSRA6620, CSRA6640, CSRB31024, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, QCA6175A, QCA6310, QCA6320 … (+28)affected
Same product
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- CVE-2024-23368Buffer Copy Without Checking Size of Input (`Classic Buffer Overflow`) in Qualcomm IPC31Monitor
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Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-416 · Use After FreeCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-416 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
free(dev->buf);/* ... another thread is still running ... */process(dev->buf);Fixed
lock(&dev->lock);free(dev->buf);dev->buf = NULL;unlock(&dev->lock);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
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We use this product, ask for helpChange log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.