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CVE-2020-11179

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and...

7.0 HighPublic exploit

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and creating a race condition. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.32%Down 0.1 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.0

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and creating a race condition. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Record
CVE-2020-11179
CVSS 3.1
7.0 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
6.9 MediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness
CWE-125, CWE-787
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and creating a race condition. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Record
CVE-2020-11179
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-3533 No score

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and creating a race condition. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Record
EUVD-2020-3533
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-9pw4-685c-rqj9 No score

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and...

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and creating a race condition. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Record
GHSA-9pw4-685c-rqj9
Weakness
CWE-787
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

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Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
PoC in GitHubsparrow-labz/CVE-2020-11179-Adreno-Qualcomm-GPU2024-10-28

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, PoC in GitHub

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In short

CVE-2020-11179 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.0) in Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Iot, Snapdragon Industrial Iot, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, published January 21, 2021. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.32%, the 24th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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