CVE-2017-18144: Qualcomm MSM8909W Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Android before security patch level 2018-04-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, while processing the retransmission of WPA supplicant command send failures, there is a make after break of the connection to WPA supplicant where the local pointer is not properly updated. If the WPA supplicant command transmission fails, a Use After Free condition will occur.

Affected products

• Qualcomm MSM8909W Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 205 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 212 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 415 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 450 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 615 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 616 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 625 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 650 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 652 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 820 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 835 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 845 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2018-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.