CVE-2018-11259

Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Due to Improper Access Control of NAND-based EFS in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear, From fastboot on a NAND-based device, the EFS partition can be erased. Apps processor then has non-secure world full read/write access to the partition until the modem boots and configures the EFS partition addresses in its MPU partition.

Affected products

Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Mdm9607 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Mdm9635M Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Mdm9640 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Mdm9650 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Mdm9655 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Msm8909W Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Msm8996Au Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 205 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 212 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 410 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 412 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 415 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 425 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 427 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 430 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 435 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 450 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 615 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 616 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 617 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 625 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 650 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 652 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 800 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 810 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 820 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 820A Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 835 Firmware: all versions

References

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