Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-20726

High

Published: 04 November 2025

Published
04 November 2025
Modified
05 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0038 60.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-20726 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Mediatek Lr12A. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Modem, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an incorrect bounds check. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no…

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additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: MOLY01672598; Issue ID: MSV-4622.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mediatek
lr12a
all versions
mediatek
nr15
all versions
mediatek
nr16
all versions
mediatek
nr17
all versions
mediatek
nr17r
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References