VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-26943

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-10-19
Last modified2026-06-17

Description

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.