Ipq4019 Firmware
CVE-2020-11172
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Buffer copy size validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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u'fscanf reads a string from a file and stores its contents on a statically allocated stack memory which leads to stack overflow' in Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in IPQ4019,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Always validate buffer sizes before copy operations. Use bounded functions (strncpy, snprintf). Enable compiler protections.
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This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Copy without Size Check (CWE-120), which allows attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory. u'fscanf reads a string from a file and stores its contents on a statically allocated stack memory which leads to stack overflow' in Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in IPQ4019, IPQ6018, IPQ8064, IPQ8074, QCA9531, QCA9980 Affected products include: Qualcomm Ipq4019 Firmware, Qualcomm Ipq6018 Firmware, Qualcomm Ipq8064 Firmware, Qualcomm Ipq8074 Firmware, Qualcomm Qca9531 Firmware.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
u'fscanf reads a string from a file and stores its contents on a statically allocated stack memory which leads to stack overflow' in Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in IPQ4019, IPQ6018, IPQ8064, IPQ8074, QCA9531, QCA9980
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
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