Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-24083 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-24083 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-24083?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.8, published 4 August 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Qualcomm <UNKNOWN>.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-24083?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-24083 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-24083?
- Check whether you run Qualcomm Qam8295p, Qualcomm Qam8295p Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6696 or one of the others listed. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
This vulnerability is a memory corruption flaw in a Qualcomm device driver's IOCTL request handler. The driver does not properly validate arguments supplied by callers, allowing malformed or invalid parameters to be processed unsafely. The vulnerability requires local access to trigger (either via direct device access or a local unprivileged process). Successful exploitation can cause heap or stack corruption, leading to crash, information disclosure, or code execution depending on memory layout and exploitation technique. Patches are available from Qualcomm's August 2026 security bulletin.
Affected products
- Qualcomm <UNKNOWN>
Timeline
- 2026-08-04: disclosed