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CVE-2018-3589

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-3589 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile MDM9650, MDM9655, SD 835, SD 845, and SD 850 chipsets, affecting Android devices before the 2018-04-05 security patch level. This flaw arises when the vswr capture size exceeds the maximum diag logPacket size, leading to a buffer overflow during data copying. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers over the network to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability). Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9650_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9655_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_835_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_845_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_850_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0135 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2018-04-01
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/103671
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry