A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear up to SDA660 (Chip Software). This issue affects an unknown function of the component Secure Display. The manipulation as part of a Application leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Secure display content could be accessed by third party trusted application after creating a fault in other trusted applications in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear in version MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 835, SDA660.

The bug was discovered 08/01/2018. The weakness was disclosed 10/23/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at source.android.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-18300 since 06/15/2018. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 83 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-124288, VDB-124289, VDB-124290 and VDB-125857 are pretty similar.

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• Chip Software

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• Qualcomm

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• Snapdragon Mobile
• Snapdragon Wear

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• MDM9206
• MDM9607
• MDM9650
• SD 210-SD 212-SD 205
• SD 835
• SDA660

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• commercial

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