What is CVE-2019-10520?

CVE-2019-10520 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Qcs405, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-12-12.

How severe is CVE-2019-10520?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Qualcomm Qcs405

CVE-2019-10520

An unprivileged application can allocate GPU memory by calling memory allocation ioctl function and can exhaust all the memory which results in out of memory in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 730, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855

Published 2019-12-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (5.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 6th percentile — 5.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-11-01 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10520?: CVE-2019-10520 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Qcs405, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-12-12.
How severe is CVE-2019-10520?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.