Vulnerability · Published Aug 6, 2025 · Assigned by qualcomm

CVE-2025-21456Use After Free in NPU

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity use-after-free in Snapdragon from Qualcomm, Inc.. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 1% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)<0.1%top 99.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Memory corruption while processing IOCTL command when multiple threads are called to map/unmap buffer concurrently.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon AR8035C-V2X 9150FastConnect 6900FastConnect 7800QAM8255PQAM8295PQAM8650PQAM8775P

Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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