Local memory corruption via map-buffer use-after-free
Published Apr 7, 2025 · Updated Apr 7, 2025
Use-after-free in Qualcomm Snapdragon HLOS allows local users to corrupt memory through an IOCTL map-buffer request. The HLOS map-buffer request path reuses memory after it has been freed, but Qualcomm has not disclosed the responsible driver, function, object, or lifetime error. Low-privileged access to an affected device is required; successful corruption can alter memory-backed state and cause limited data exposure or service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Qualcomm Snapdragon HLOS allows local users to corrupt memory through an IOCTL map-buffer request. The HLOS map-buffer request path reuses memory after it has been freed, but Qualcomm has not disclosed the responsible driver, function, object, or lifetime error. Low-privileged access to an affected device is required; successful corruption can alter memory-backed state and cause limited data exposure or service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-45540
- Published
- Apr 7, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 7, 2025
- Vendor
- Qualcomm
- Product
- Snapdragon
- Classifications
- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 7, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 7, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
Present is not the same as exploitable
Compare your product and version with the public record. A matching version still requires validation against your environment.
Is a vulnerable build present?
Compare these published version ranges with your installed build and any vendor patches.
- Affected versionversion=C-V2X 9150
- Affected versionversion=FastConnect 6200
- Affected versionversion=FastConnect 6800
- Affected versionversion=FastConnect 6900
- Affected versionversion=FastConnect 7800
- Affected versionversion=QAM8295P
- Affected versionversion=QCA6174A
- Affected versionversion=QCA6391
- Affected versionversion=QCA6426
- Affected versionversion=QCA6436
- Affected versionversion=QCA6574AU
- Affected versionversion=QCA6595AU
- Affected versionversion=QCA6678AQ
- Affected versionversion=QCA6688AQ
- Affected versionversion=QCA6696
- Affected versionversion=QCA6698AQ
- Affected versionversion=QCA9367
- Affected versionversion=QCA9377
- Affected versionversion=QCN9074
- Affected versionversion=QCS410
- Affected versionversion=QCS610
- Affected versionversion=QSM8250
- Affected versionversion=Qualcomm Video Collaboration VC1 Platform
- Affected versionversion=Qualcomm Video Collaboration VC3 Platform
- Affected versionversion=SA6145P
- Affected versionversion=SA6150P
- Affected versionversion=SA6155P
- Affected versionversion=SA8145P
- Affected versionversion=SA8150P
- Affected versionversion=SA8155P
- Affected versionversion=SA8195P
- Affected versionversion=SA8295P
- Affected versionversion=SA8530P
- Affected versionversion=SA8540P
- Affected versionversion=SA9000P
- Affected versionversion=SD865 5G
- Affected versionversion=SDX55
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 480 5G Mobile Platform
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 480+ 5G Mobile Platform (SM4350-AC)
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Mobile Platform
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 695 5G Mobile Platform
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 865 5G Mobile Platform
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 865+ 5G Mobile Platform (SM8250-AB)
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 870 5G Mobile Platform (SM8250-AC)
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 888+ 5G Mobile Platform (SM8350-AC)
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon Auto 5G Modem-RF Gen 2
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 Wearable Platform
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System
- Affected versionversion=Snapdragon XR2 5G Platform
- Affected versionversion=SW5100
- Affected versionversion=SW5100P
- Affected versionversion=SXR2130
- Affected versionversion=WCD9341
- Affected versionversion=WCD9370
- Affected versionversion=WCD9375
- Affected versionversion=WCD9380
- Affected versionversion=WCD9385
- Affected versionversion=WCN3660B
- Affected versionversion=WCN3680B
- Affected versionversion=WCN3950
- Affected versionversion=WCN3980
- Affected versionversion=WCN3988
- Affected versionversion=WSA8810
- Affected versionversion=WSA8815
- Affected versionversion=WSA8830
- Affected versionversion=WSA8835
What conditions does exploitation require?
What is affected?
Published CVSS scores
CVSS describes severity. EPSS estimates exploitation probability.
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
Daily unique IPs observed by Shadowserver honeypots for known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs). Missing observations do not establish an absence of attacks.
Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
No public exploit references are available in this record.
Labels summarize the accepted research assessment. They do not indicate a test against your environment.
Technologies
Your stack
See the directory against your own environment.
Your stack
Check the software in your environment
Book a demo to see how Hinoki identifies affected software and validates exploitability in your environment.
Book a demo