CVE-2025-59606: CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference in Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon
CVE-2025-59606 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon products caused by a NULL pointer dereference due to heap memory exhaustion during secure data initialization. This memory corruption issue can lead to confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. The vulnerability affects a wide range of Snapdragon platforms and related components. No official patch or remediation guidance has been confirmed yet. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2025-59606 is a vulnerability classified as CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference) affecting numerous Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms and related components. The issue arises from heap memory exhaustion during secure data initialization, which leads to memory corruption when writing to invalid memory locations. This can cause a crash or potentially allow an attacker to impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.8, indicating high severity, with attack vector local, low attack complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction, and impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is published but no official patch or remediation level has been provided by Qualcomm as of the publication date.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in memory corruption due to NULL pointer dereference, potentially causing system crashes or other impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on affected Qualcomm Snapdragon devices. The CVSS score of 7.8 reflects a high severity impact. There are no known exploits in the wild currently.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Since no official fix or mitigation level has been provided by Qualcomm, users and administrators should monitor Qualcomm's advisories for updates. No specific mitigation steps are available at this time.
CVE-2025-59606: CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference in Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon
Description
CVE-2025-59606 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon products caused by a NULL pointer dereference due to heap memory exhaustion during secure data initialization. This memory corruption issue can lead to confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. The vulnerability affects a wide range of Snapdragon platforms and related components. No official patch or remediation guidance has been confirmed yet. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.8high
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2025-59606 is a vulnerability classified as CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference) affecting numerous Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms and related components. The issue arises from heap memory exhaustion during secure data initialization, which leads to memory corruption when writing to invalid memory locations. This can cause a crash or potentially allow an attacker to impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.8, indicating high severity, with attack vector local, low attack complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction, and impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is published but no official patch or remediation level has been provided by Qualcomm as of the publication date.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in memory corruption due to NULL pointer dereference, potentially causing system crashes or other impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on affected Qualcomm Snapdragon devices. The CVSS score of 7.8 reflects a high severity impact. There are no known exploits in the wild currently.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Since no official fix or mitigation level has been provided by Qualcomm, users and administrators should monitor Qualcomm's advisories for updates. No specific mitigation steps are available at this time.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- qualcomm
- Date Reserved
- 2025-09-18T03:19:23.201Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a1e08c0e29bf47b5051e1ca
Added to database: 6/1/2026, 10:33:36 PM
Last enriched: 6/1/2026, 11:03:26 PM
Last updated: 6/2/2026, 4:39:47 AM
Views: 3
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