Vulnerability in Motorola Mobile Radio

CVE-2022-26943

The Motorola MTM5000 series firmwares generate TETRA authentication challenges using a PRNG using a tick count register as its sole entropy source. Low boottime entropy and limited re-seeding of the pool renders the authentication challenge vulnerable to two attacks. First, due to the limited boottime pool entropy, an adversary can derive the contents of the entropy pool by an exhaustive search of possible values, based on an observed authentication challenge. Second, an adversary can use knowledge of the entropy pool to predict authentication challenges. As such, the unit is vulnerable to CVE-2022-24400.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-26943?
CVE-2022-26943 is a high-severity vulnerability in Motorola Mobile Radio, classified under Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2023-10-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-26943?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.