Ericsson Packet Core Gateway up to 1.29 missing values

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Ericsson Packet Core Gateway up to 1.29. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation results in improper handling of missing values. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-25659. The attack needs to be approached within the local network. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Ericsson Packet Core Gateway up to 1.29. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper handling of missing values vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-230. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when a parameter, field, or argument name is specified, but the associated value is missing, i.e. it is empty, blank, or null. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Ericsson Packet Core Gateway (PCG) versions prior to 1.30 contain an Improper Handling of Missing Values (CWE-230) vulnerability where an attacker continuously sending a specially crafted message can cause service degradation. The impact continues as long the attack persists but the system recovers from the crashes when the attack stops.

The weakness was presented by Clemens Keil, Manfred Heinz and Patrick Walker. The advisory is available at ericsson.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-25659 since 02/04/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Access to the local network is required for this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 1.30 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-34823). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• Ericsson

Name

• Packet Core Gateway

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29

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