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CVE-2020-11208

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-11208 is an out-of-bounds vulnerability in Qualcomm's Digital Signal Processor (DSP) services, affecting numerous Snapdragon chipsets including the SD820, SD855, and SD660, due to improper validation of received argument lengths. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating that a local attacker with low privileges can achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability without user interaction. While there is no known active exploitation (KEV) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community attention with 3 mentions and media coverage from outlets like BleepingComputer and SecurityWeek, highlighting its potential widespread impact on nearly 50% of all smartphones.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd820_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd821_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:qcs603_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:qcs605_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sda855_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0173 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

coollabspatch availablevia llm_extracted

Vendor Advisories (1)

coollabsllm-coollabs-290e89308977c65dHIGH

Mobility Products RCE and DOS Vulnerabilities

Aug 14, 2020

References

blog.checkpoint.com / 2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-big-peril
Third Party Advisory
research.checkpoint.com / 2021/pwn2own-qualcomm-dsp
ExploitThird Party Advisory
qualcomm.com / company/product-security/bulletins/november-2020-bulletin
Vendor Advisory