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🛡️ CVE-2026-24083 — qam8295p-firmware

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-822 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Memory Corruption while processing IOCTL device driver requests with invalid arguments.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-24083 is classified as CWE-822: Untrusted Pointer Dereference. The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.

Affected software

CVE-2026-24083 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • qam8295p-firmware
  • qca6696-firmware
  • sa8295p-firmware

Timeline and source

Published on 4 August 2026 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

docs.qualcomm.com

Other advisories for this package

qam8295p-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-822: Untrusted Pointer Dereference) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-822
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-06

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
qam8295p-firmware
qca6696-firmware
sa8295p-firmware

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