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CVE-2018-13906: The HMAC authenticating the message from QSEE is vulnerable to timing side channel analysis leading to potentially forged application messag

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.66% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 51.8% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The HMAC authenticating the message from QSEE is vulnerable to timing side channel analysis leading to potentially forged application message in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in IPQ4019, IPQ8074, MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCA8081, QCS405, QCS605, Qualcomm 215, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 439 / SD 429, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 632, SD 636, SD 650/52, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855, SD 8CX, SDA660, SDM439, SDM630, SDM660, SDX20, Snapdragon_High_Med_2016, SXR1130

CriticalCVSS 9.1 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Jun 14, 2019
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.6% · 51th percentile

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Action score

36

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
36 / 40 · 9.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.6%

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

Pick the product and type the version you run. It's compared with this record's version ranges in your browser; the version isn't sent anywhere.

VendorProduct
qualcommipq4019 firmware
qualcommipq4019
qualcommipq8074 firmware
qualcommipq8074
qualcommmdm9150 firmware
qualcommmdm9150
qualcommmdm9206 firmware
qualcommmdm9206
qualcommmdm9607 firmware
qualcommmdm9607
qualcommmdm9635m firmware
qualcommmdm9635m

and 92 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • qualcomm ipq4019 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm ipq8074 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm mdm9150 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm mdm9206 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm mdm9607 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm mdm9635m firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm mdm9640 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm mdm9650 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm mdm9655 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm msm8909w firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm msm8996au firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm qca8081 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm qcs405 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm qcs605 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm qualcomm 215 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm sd 205 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm sd 210 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm sd 212 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm sd 410 firmwareall versions
  • qualcomm sd 412 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 Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapd

    • IPQ4019, IPQ8074, MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCA8081, QCS405, QCS605, Qualcomm 215, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, Saffected

Same product

qualcomm: all records

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2017-8252Jun 14, 2019 · Kernel can inject faults in computations during the execution of TrustZone leading to information disclosure in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2018-11942Jun 14, 2019 · Failure to initialize the reserved memory which is sent to the firmware might lead to exposure of 1 byte of uninitialized kernel SKB memory
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2019-2240Jul 25, 2019 · While sending the rendered surface content to the screen, Error handling is not properly checked results in an unpredictable behaviour in Sn
    22Monitor

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.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

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 researchers

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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

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • 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
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change 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.

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