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CVE-2024-38419: Use After Free in Automotive GPU

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

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: 0.10% (FIRST EPSS).
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.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

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

Memory corruption while invoking IOCTL calls from the use-space for HGSL memory node.

Memory safety

Published: Nov 4, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.1% · 0th percentile
CWE: CWE-416

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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: —
CNA · qualcomm: 7.8; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
qualcomm	wsa8845h firmware	cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:wsa8845h_firmware
qualcomm	wsa8845h	cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:wsa8845h
qualcomm	wsa8845 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:wsa8845_firmware
qualcomm	wsa8845	cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:wsa8845
qualcomm	wsa8840 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:wsa8840_firmware
qualcomm	wsa8840	cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:wsa8840
qualcomm	wsa8835 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:wsa8835_firmware
qualcomm	wsa8835	cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:wsa8835
qualcomm	wsa8832 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:wsa8832_firmware
qualcomm	wsa8832	cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:wsa8832
qualcomm	wsa8830 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:wsa8830_firmware
qualcomm	wsa8830	cpe:2.3:h:qualcomm:wsa8830

and 188 more

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
- AR8035, CSRA6620, CSRA6640, FastConnect 6200, FastConnect 6700, FastConnect 6900, FastConnect 7800, Flight RB5 5G Platform, MDM9628, QAM8255P, QAM8295P, QAM8620P … (+28)affected

Affected versions · NVD (20)

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

qualcomm ar8035 firmwareall versions
qualcomm csra6620 firmwareall versions
qualcomm csra6640 firmwareall versions
qualcomm fastconnect 6200 firmwareall versions
qualcomm fastconnect 6700 firmwareall versions
qualcomm fastconnect 6900 firmwareall versions
qualcomm fastconnect 7800 firmwareall versions
qualcomm flight rb5 5g platform firmwareall versions
qualcomm mdm9628 firmwareall versions
qualcomm qam8255p firmwareall versions
qualcomm qam8295p firmwareall versions
qualcomm qam8620p firmwareall versions
qualcomm qam8650p firmwareall versions
qualcomm qam8775p firmwareall versions
qualcomm qamsrv1h firmwareall versions
qualcomm qamsrv1m firmwareall versions
qualcomm qca6174a firmwareall versions
qualcomm qca6391 firmwareall versions
qualcomm qca6564a firmwareall versions
qualcomm qca6564au firmwareall versions

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-38410Nov 4, 2024 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow in WLAN Windows Host
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← EarlierCVE-2024-38415Nov 4, 2024 · Use After Free in Computer Vision
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Later →CVE-2024-38421Nov 4, 2024 · Use After Free in Graphics Linux
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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.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2024-2338491 days apartUse After Free in Graphics Linux
33Monitor
CVE-2024-330330 days apartUse After Free in ComputerVision
31Monitor
CVE-2024-384150 days apartUse After Free in Computer Vision
31Monitor
CVE-2024-384210 days apartUse After Free in Graphics Linux
31Monitor
CVE-2024-2338191 days apartUse After Free in Graphics Linux
31Monitor
CVE-2024-2338391 days apartUse After Free in Graphics Linux
31Monitor

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-1821 · Nov 5, 2024(Qualcomm Çoklu Ürün Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · public bounty program.

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 Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

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 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1free(dev->buf);
2/* ... another thread is still running ... */
3process(dev->buf);

Fixed

1lock(&dev->lock);
2free(dev->buf);
3dev->buf = NULL;
4unlock(&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.

Change log (0)

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

docs.qualcomm.com/product/publicresources/securitybulletin/november-2024-bulletin.html

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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