CVE-2023-36998

CVE-2023-36998CVE-2023-36998

Description

The NextEPC MME <= 1.0.1 (fixed in commit a8492c9c5bc0a66c6999cb5a263545b32a4109df) contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Emergency Number List decoding method. An attacker may send a NAS message containing an oversized Emergency Number List value to the MME to overwrite the stack with arbitrary bytes. An attacker with a cellphone connection to any base station managed by the MME may exploit this vulnerability without having to authenticate with the LTE core.

Scoring

CVSS 8.9 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
Last modified2026-07-05
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.