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CVE-2023-21626Improper Authentication in HLOS.
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.11%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 99% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cryptographic issue in HLOS due to improper authentication while performing key velocity checks using more than one key.
Timeline
ID reserved
By qualcomm
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| qualcommCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.11% · top 99% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
- affected APQ8009
- affected APQ8017
- affected APQ8037
- affected AQT1000
- affected AR8035
- affected CSRA6620
- affected CSRA6640
- affected CSRB31024
- affected FSM10056
- affected MDM8207
- affected MDM9205
- affected MDM9206
- affected MDM9207
- affected MDM9607
- affected MDM9628
- affected MSM8108
- affected MSM8208
- affected MSM8209
- affected MSM8608
- affected MSM8917
- affected MSM8920
- affected MSM8937
- affected MSM8940
- affected PM8937
- affected QAM8295P
- affected QCA4004
- affected QCA4020
- affected QCA6174A
- affected QCA6310
- affected QCA6320
- affected QCA6335
- affected QCA6390
- affected QCA6391
- affected QCA6420
- affected QCA6421
- affected QCA6426
- affected QCA6430
- affected QCA6431
- affected QCA6436
- affected QCA6564
- and 145 more
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-25793 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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