What is CVE-2015-9148?

CVE-2015-9148 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9625, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-04-18.

How severe is CVE-2015-9148?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Qualcomm Mdm9625

CVE-2015-9148

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Automobile and Snapdragon Mobile MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, SD 400, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 600, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SD 845, SD 850, and SDX20, in the Diag User-PD command registration function, a length variable used during buffer allocation is not checked, so if it is very large, an integer overflow followed by a buffer overflow occurs.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-04-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (70.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 70.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.013 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01 (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/103671 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9148?: CVE-2015-9148 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9625, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-04-18.
How severe is CVE-2015-9148?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.