VDB-307613 · CVE-2025-21469 · GCVE-0-2025-21469

Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute/Snapdragon Industrial IOT FastConnect 6700 up to WSA8845 Image Encoder memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute and Snapdragon Industrial IOT. It has been classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component Image Encoder. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-21469. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute and Snapdragon Industrial IOT. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Image Encoder. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Memory corruption while processing image encoding, when input buffer length is 0 in IOCTL call.

The advisory is shared at docs.qualcomm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-21469 since 12/18/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2025).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

Type

Chip Software

Vendor

Qualcomm

Name

Version

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.qualcomm.com/

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 7.8
CNA Vector (qualcomm): 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

12/18/2024 🔍
05/06/2025 +138 days 🔍
05/06/2025 +0 days 🔍
08/11/2025 +97 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: qualcomm.com

Advisory: docs.qualcomm.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-21469 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-21469
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-307613

Entryinfo

Created: 05/06/2025 11:36
Updated: 08/11/2025 18:30
Changes: 05/06/2025 11:36 (64), 08/11/2025 18:30 (1)
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