CVE-2023-33106 — Ar8035 Firmware
HIGHCVE-2023-33106 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.4) CWE-823 vulnerability in qualcomm ar8035 firmware. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-12-05) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Memory corruption while submitting a large list of sync points in an AUX command to the IOCTL_KGSL_GPU_AUX_COMMAND.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-12-05. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2023-12-26.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2023-33106.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2023-33106 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Memory corruption while submitting a large list of sync points in an AUX command to the IOCTL_KGSL_GPU_AUX_COMMAND.
Affected Products
ar8035 firmwarequalcommcsra6620 firmwarequalcommcsra6640 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 6200 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 6700 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 6800 firmwarequalcommResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Memory corruption while submitting a large list of sync points in an AUX…
Memory corruption while submitting a large list of sync points in an AUX…
Memory corruption while submitting a large list of sync points in an AUX…
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every qualcomm ar8035 firmware deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2023-33106 yet — track the qualcomm ar8035 firmware advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2023-33106 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.