CVE-2025-21424
Use After Free in NPU
7.8 HighFix available
Memory corruption while calling the NPU driver APIs concurrently.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
0.12%Up 0.1 points since Mar 4, 2025
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Use After Free in NPU
Memory corruption while calling the NPU driver APIs concurrently.
- Record
CVE-2025-21424- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-416
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-5779
Memory corruption while calling the NPU driver APIs concurrently.
- Record
EUVD-2025-5779- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q98w-g5j8-3x6h
Memory corruption while calling the NPU driver APIs concurrently.
Memory corruption while calling the NPU driver APIs concurrently.
- Record
GHSA-q98w-g5j8-3x6h- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-416
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Memory corruption while calling the NPU driver APIs concurrently.
- Record
CVE-2025-21424- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-416
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
- qualcomm 215 firmware
- qualcomm 315 5g iot modem firmware
- qualcomm aqt1000 firmware
- qualcomm ar8031 firmware
- qualcomm ar8035 firmware
- qualcomm c-v2x 9150 firmware
- qualcomm csra6620 firmware
- qualcomm csra6640 firmware
- qualcomm fastconnect 6200 firmware
- qualcomm fastconnect 6700 firmware
- qualcomm fastconnect 6800 firmware
- qualcomm fastconnect 6900 firmware
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- qualcomm fastconnect 7800 firmware
- qualcomm flight rb5 5g firmware
- qualcomm mdm9628 firmware
- qualcomm qam8255p firmware
- qualcomm qam8295p firmware
- qualcomm qam8620p firmware
- qualcomm qam8650p firmware
- qualcomm qam8775p firmware
- qualcomm qamsrv1h firmware
- qualcomm qamsrv1m firmware
- qualcomm qca6174a firmware
- qualcomm qca6391 firmware
- qualcomm qca6420 firmware
- qualcomm qca6426 firmware
- qualcomm qca6430 firmware
- qualcomm qca6436 firmware
- qualcomm qca6564 firmware
- qualcomm qca6564a firmware
- qualcomm qca6564au firmware
- qualcomm qca6574 firmware
- qualcomm qca6574a firmware
- qualcomm qca6574au firmware
- qualcomm qca6584au firmware
- qualcomm qca6595 firmware
- qualcomm qca6595au firmware
- qualcomm qca6678aq firmware
- qualcomm qca6688aq firmware
- qualcomm qca6696 firmware
- qualcomm qca6698aq firmware
- qualcomm qca6797aq firmware
- qualcomm qca8081 firmware
- qualcomm qca8337 firmware
- qualcomm qca9377 firmware
- qualcomm qcc710 firmware
- qualcomm qcm2150 firmware
- qualcomm qcm2290 firmware
- qualcomm qcm4290 firmware
- qualcomm qcm4325 firmware
- qualcomm qcm5430 firmware
- qualcomm qcm6125 firmware
- qualcomm qcm6490 firmware
- qualcomm qcm8550 firmware
- qualcomm qcn6024 firmware
- qualcomm qcn6224 firmware
- qualcomm qcn6274 firmware
- qualcomm qcn9011 firmware
- qualcomm qcn9012 firmware
- qualcomm qcn9024 firmware
- qualcomm qcn9074 firmware
- qualcomm qcs2290 firmware
- qualcomm qcs410 firmware
- qualcomm qcs4290 firmware
- qualcomm qcs5430 firmware
- qualcomm qcs610 firmware
- qualcomm qcs6125 firmware
- qualcomm qcs6490 firmware
- qualcomm qcs7230 firmware
- qualcomm qcs8155 firmware
- qualcomm qcs8250 firmware
- qualcomm qcs8550 firmware
- qualcomm qdu1000 firmware
- qualcomm qdu1010 firmware
- qualcomm qdu1110 firmware
- qualcomm qdu1210 firmware
- qualcomm qdx1010 firmware
- qualcomm qdx1011 firmware
- qualcomm qep8111 firmware
- qualcomm qfw7114 firmware
- qualcomm qfw7124 firmware
- qualcomm qrb5165m firmware
- qualcomm qrb5165n firmware
- qualcomm qru1032 firmware
- qualcomm qru1052 firmware
- qualcomm qru1062 firmware
- qualcomm qsm8250 firmware
- qualcomm qsm8350 firmware
- qualcomm robotics rb2 firmware
- qualcomm robotics rb5 firmware
- qualcomm sa2150p firmware
- qualcomm sa4150p firmware
- qualcomm sa4155p firmware
- qualcomm sa6145p firmware
- qualcomm sa6150p firmware
- qualcomm sa6155 firmware
- qualcomm sa6155p firmware
- qualcomm sa7255p firmware
- qualcomm sa7775p firmware
- qualcomm sa8145p firmware
- qualcomm sa8150p firmware
- qualcomm sa8155 firmware
- qualcomm sa8155p firmware
- qualcomm sa8195p firmware
- qualcomm sa8255p firmware
- qualcomm sa8295p firmware
- qualcomm sa8530p firmware
- qualcomm sa8540p firmware
- qualcomm sa8620p firmware
- qualcomm sa8650p firmware
- qualcomm sa8770p firmware
- qualcomm sa8775p firmware
- qualcomm sa9000p firmware
- qualcomm sd660 firmware
- qualcomm sd675 firmware
- qualcomm sd730 firmware
- qualcomm sd855 firmware
- qualcomm sd865 5g firmware
- qualcomm sd888 firmware
- qualcomm sd 675 firmware
- qualcomm sdx55 firmware
- qualcomm sdx61 firmware
- qualcomm sg4150p firmware
- qualcomm sg8275p firmware
- qualcomm sm4125 firmware
- qualcomm sm4635 firmware
- qualcomm sm6250 firmware
- qualcomm sm6370 firmware
- qualcomm sm6650 firmware
- qualcomm sm7250p firmware
- qualcomm sm7315 firmware
- qualcomm sm7325p firmware
- qualcomm sm7635 firmware
- qualcomm sm7675 firmware
- qualcomm sm7675p firmware
- qualcomm sm8550p firmware
- qualcomm sm8635 firmware
- qualcomm sm8635p firmware
- qualcomm sm8650q firmware
- qualcomm smart audio 400 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 439 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 460 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 480\+ 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 480 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 4 gen 1 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 660 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 662 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 675 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 678 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 680 4g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 685 4g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 690 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 695 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 720g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 730 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 730g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 732g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 750g 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 765 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 765g 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 768g 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 778g\+ 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 778g 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 780g 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 782g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 7c\+ gen 3 compute firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 855\+ firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 855 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 860 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 865\+ 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 865 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 870 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 888\+ 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 888 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 8\+ gen 2 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 8 gen 1 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 8 gen 2 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon 8 gen 3 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon auto 4g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon auto 5g modem-rf firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon auto 5g modem-rf gen 2 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon w5\+ gen 1 wearable firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x12 lte firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x35 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x50 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x55 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x62 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x65 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x72 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon x75 5g firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon xr2\+ gen 1 firmware
- qualcomm snapdragon xr2 5g firmware
- qualcomm srv1h firmware
- qualcomm srv1l firmware
- qualcomm srv1m firmware
- qualcomm sw5100 firmware
- qualcomm sw5100p firmware
- qualcomm sxr2130 firmware
- qualcomm sxr2330p firmware
- qualcomm video collaboration vc1 platform firmware
- qualcomm video collaboration vc3 platform firmware
- qualcomm video collaboration vc5 platform firmware
- qualcomm vision intelligence 400 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9326 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9335 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9340 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9341 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9360 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9370 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9371 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9375 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9378 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9380 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9385 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9390 firmware
- qualcomm wcd9395 firmware
- qualcomm wcn3615 firmware
- qualcomm wcn3660b firmware
- qualcomm wcn3680 firmware
- qualcomm wcn3680b firmware
- qualcomm wcn3910 firmware
- qualcomm wcn3950 firmware
- qualcomm wcn3980 firmware
- qualcomm wcn3988 firmware
- qualcomm wcn3990 firmware
- qualcomm wcn6450 firmware
- qualcomm wcn6650 firmware
- qualcomm wcn6740 firmware
- qualcomm wcn6755 firmware
- qualcomm wcn7861 firmware
- qualcomm wcn7881 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8810 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8815 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8830 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8832 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8835 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8840 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8845 firmware
- qualcomm wsa8845h firmware
- qualcomm, inc. snapdragon
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
:linux_kernel:QualcommAndroid |
SoCVersion:0 up to SoCVersion:2025-06-05, plus listed versions SoCVersion |
SoCVersion:2025-06-05 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| facts | OSV | |
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-21424 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Qualcomm 215 Firmware, published March 3, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.12%, the 1st percentile. Fixed in :linux_kernel:Qualcomm SoCVersion:2025-06-05.
References
docs.qualcomm.com/product/publicresources/securitybulletin/march-2025-bulletin.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21424
github.com/advisories/GHSA-q98w-g5j8-3x6h
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2025-06-01
git.codelinaro.org/clo/la/kernel/msm-5.15/-/commit/5c5c9b3ad2074d8be0beb1067661a2c4d8992d8e