CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures is the publicly maintained catalogue of disclosed software vulnerabilities, each assigned a unique CVE-YYYY-NNNN identifier by a CVE Numbering Authority. The system, run by MITRE with CISA sponsorship, is the lingua franca of vulnerability management worldwide and feeds into NVD severity scoring (CVSS) and operator patching workflows.

Categories: Radio Access NetworkThreats and AttacksInternet and Routing

CVE in context

The radio access network is where mobile devices attach to the operator's infrastructure. Attacks in this layer include IMSI catching, rogue base stations and downgrade attacks; defenses rest on mutual authentication, integrity-protected signaling and Open RAN supply-chain hygiene.

Telecom threats range from opportunistic SMS phishing and SIM swap to nation-state grade location tracking. The common thread is that most attacks exploit the inherited trust model of legacy signaling protocols.

To place CVE in the wider telecom-security picture, review Cybersecurity, IoT, RF, A5/0, A5/2 and A5/3 — each entry cross-references back to this page so you can walk the topic in either direction.

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