CVE-2018-11284 — Spoofed SMS can be used to send a large number of messages to the device which w

Spoofed SMS can be used to send a large number of messages to the device which will in turn initiate a flood of registration updates with the server in snapdragon mobile and snapdragon wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 625, SD 636, SDA660, SDM63

01What is this vulnerability?

Spoofed SMS can be used to send a large number of messages to the device which will in turn initiate a flood of registration updates with the server in snapdragon mobile and snapdragon wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 625, SD 636, SDA660, SDM630, SDM660, SDX20

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Qualcomm, Inc.	Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear	MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 625, SD 636, SDA660, SDM630, SDM660, SDX20

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-01-18T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T08:01:52.853Z

09References

• www.qualcomm.com — https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins