CVE-2017-18141 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in various Qualcomm Snapdragon products, including those in Automobile, Mobile, and Wear categories. When a third-party Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is loaded, an attacker in the non-secure world can craft a secure monitor call to access privileged functions intended only for the TEE. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a low-privileged local attacker can achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. There is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not actively exploited or widely known.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:ipq8074_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9206_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9607_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9635m_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9650_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.