What is CVE-2020-11148?

CVE-2020-11148 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8017, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2021-01-21.

How severe is CVE-2020-11148?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

Use After Free in Qualcomm Apq8017

CVE-2020-11148

Use after free issue in HIDL while using callback to post event in Rx thread when internal mutex is not acquired and meantime close is triggered and callback instance is deleted in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

Published 2021-01-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (9.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 10th percentile — 9.8% 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-416 — Use After Free

References

www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/december-2020-bulletin (Broken Link)
www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/december-2020-security-bull… (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-11148?: CVE-2020-11148 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8017, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2021-01-21.
How severe is CVE-2020-11148?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.