What is CVE-2024-33039?

CVE-2024-33039 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Qam8255p, classified under Untrusted Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2024-12-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-33039?

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

Vulnerability in Qualcomm Qam8255p

CVE-2024-33039

Memory corruption when PAL client calls PAL service APIs by passing a random value as handle and the handle is not validated by the service.

Published 2024-12-02 · 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: 0.001 (0.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 1st percentile — 0.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-822 — Untrusted Pointer Dereference

References

docs.qualcomm.com/product/publicresources/securitybulletin/december-2024-bullet… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-33039?: CVE-2024-33039 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Qam8255p, classified under Untrusted Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2024-12-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-33039?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.