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Vulnerability record · CVE-2019-10520 · published 12 December 2019

CVE-2019-10520: Qualcomm qcs405 firmware vulnerability

Qualcomm · Qcs405 Firmware

An unprivileged application can allocate GPU memory by calling memory allocation ioctl function and can exhaust all the memory which results in out of memory in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 730, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855

5.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.17% · top 94.0% CWE-772 · CWE-772
5.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 4.9
0.17%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
13Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

An unprivileged application can allocate GPU memory by calling memory allocation ioctl function and can exhaust all the memory which results in out of memory in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 730, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

13 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-11-01 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-11-01 PatchThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2019-10520), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-03). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.