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CVE-2018-5856

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-5856 is a Use After Free vulnerability affecting Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, specifically within the audio component. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a local attacker with low privileges can achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. There is no known public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), nor is it listed in CISA's KEV catalog, suggesting it is not actively exploited in the wild. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
9.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-5856Moderate

kernel: Use-after-free in sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6asm.c allows for kernel panic

Dec 3, 2018

References

source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/platform/vendor/opensource/audio-kernel/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
codeaurora.org / security-bulletin/2018/11/05/november-2018-code-aurora-forum-security-bulletin
PatchThird Party Advisory