Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-25657

High

Published: 05 June 2026

Published
05 June 2026
Modified
08 June 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 7.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0016 6.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-25657 is a high-severity Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure (CWE-228) vulnerability in Ericsson Packet Core Gateway. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 6.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Ericsson Packet Core Gateway (PCG) versions prior to 1.30 contain an Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure (CWE-228) vulnerability where an attacker continuously sending a specially crafted message can cause service degradation. The impact continues as long the attack persists…

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but the system recovers from the crashes when the attack stops.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

ericsson
packet core gateway
≤ 1.30

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References