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CVE-2023-21671

Memory Corruption in Core during syscall for Sectools Fuse comparison feature.

Security Impact Summary

This vulnerability carries a CRITICAL severity rating with a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.3, requiring local system access to exploit with relatively low complexity without requiring user interaction and does not require pre-existing privileges . The vulnerability impacts confidentiality (data exposure), integrity (unauthorized modifications), and availability (service disruption) for affected systems. Impacting 48 products from qualcomm, from qualcomm, from qualcomm and 45 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Reported in 2023, this vulnerability emerged during an era marked by increased sophistication in supply chain attacks, cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) security challenges. Security practices during this period emphasized zero-trust architectures, container security, and API protection.

Published

2023-11-07T06:15:08.253

Last Modified

2025-08-11T15:06:17.607

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 9.3 (CRITICAL)

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-20
  • Type: Primary
    NVD-CWE-noinfo
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System qualcomm fastconnect_6700_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm fastconnect_6700 - No
Operating System qualcomm fastconnect_6900_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm fastconnect_6900 - No
Operating System qualcomm qca6391_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm qca6391 - No
Operating System qualcomm qcm6490_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm qcm6490 - No
Operating System qualcomm qcs6490_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm qcs6490 - No
Operating System qualcomm qsm8350_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm qsm8350 - No
Operating System qualcomm video_collaboration_vc3_platform_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm video_collaboration_vc3_platform - No
Operating System qualcomm sd888_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm sd888 - No
Operating System qualcomm sm7315_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm sm7315 - No
Operating System qualcomm sm7325p_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm sm7325p - No
Operating System qualcomm snapdragon_778g_5g_mobile_platform_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm snapdragon_778g_5g_mobile_platform - No
Operating System qualcomm snapdragon_778g\+_5g_mobile_platform_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm snapdragon_778g\+_5g_mobile_platform - No
Operating System qualcomm snapdragon_780g_5g_mobile_platform_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm snapdragon_780g_5g_mobile_platform - No
Operating System qualcomm snapdragon_782g_mobile_platform_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm snapdragon_782g_mobile_platform - No
Operating System qualcomm snapdragon_7c\+_gen_3_compute_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm snapdragon_7c\+_gen_3_compute - No
Operating System qualcomm snapdragon_888_5g_mobile_platform_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm snapdragon_888_5g_mobile_platform - No
Operating System qualcomm snapdragon_888\+_5g_mobile_platform__firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm snapdragon_888\+_5g_mobile_platform_ - No
Operating System qualcomm wcd9370_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm wcd9370 - No
Operating System qualcomm wcd9375_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm wcd9375 - No
Operating System qualcomm wcd9380_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm wcd9380 - No
Operating System qualcomm wcd9385_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm wcd9385 - No
Operating System qualcomm wcn6740_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm wcn6740 - No
Operating System qualcomm wsa8830_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm wsa8830 - No
Operating System qualcomm wsa8835_firmware - Yes
Hardware qualcomm wsa8835 - No
References

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For qualcomm's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.