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CVE-2018-5821

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.3)—
Severity7.3High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.34 %higher than 26% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

In Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel before security patch level 2018-04-05, in function wma_wow_wakeup_host_event(), wake_info->vdev_id is received from FW and is used directly as array index to access wma->interfaces whose max index should be (max_bssid-1). If wake_info->vdev_id is greater than or equal to max_bssid, an out-of-bounds read occurs.

CVSS

Base score
7.3
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.34 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
26
Score date
10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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