CVE-2026-12520

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.46.4
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 6.4 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.2%, top 90% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
6.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.4Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

The Sierra Wireless HL7800 cellular modem driver (drivers/modem/vendor_standalone/hl7800.c, located at drivers/modem/hl7800.c in v4.4.0 and earlier) parses AT responses with roughly twenty handlers that call net_buf_linearize(value, sizeof(value), *buf, 0, len) into a 128-byte stack buffer and then write value[out_len] = 0. Because net_buf_linearize() (lib/net_buf/buf.c) can return a count equal to its destination-length argument, a field that exactly fills the buffer makes the terminating NUL land one byte past the end, a single-byte out-of-bounds write into adjacent stack memory.

The +KCELLMEAS cell-measurement handler on_cmd_atcmdinfo_rssi() is worse: it passed the wire length len as the destination size (net_buf_linearize(value, len, *buf, 0, len)), so a response line longer than 128 bytes overflows the value stack buffer with attacker-influenceable content. The line length comes from net_buf_findcrlf(), which accumulates bytes across the whole net_buf fragment chain and is not bounded to 128, so an over-long line reaches the defect.

The data originates from the cellular modem over UART, driven by the network: operator-scan results, +CGCONTRDP IP/DNS info, socket indications, and +KCELLMEAS neighbour-cell reports. An attacker able to shape what the modem emits — a rogue base station, a compromised modem baseband, or a remote peer feeding oversized response framing — can drive a line past 128 bytes. The handlers run in the driver's RX thread in kernel context, so the corruption is kernel-side.

The +KCELLMEAS path is a full stack buffer overflow whose worst case is code execution in kernel context and whose floor is a reliable crash; the remaining sites are single-byte NUL out-of-bounds writes. Exploitation requires the modem to emit an over-long AT response line, giving high attack complexity over an adjacent (cellular radio) vector. The fix passes sizeof(dst) - 1 (and correct explicit bounds for the IMSI and +KCELLMEAS sites) so the terminator always stays in bounds.

CVSS v3
6.4
EG Score
6.4(medium)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity64% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
10%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 18, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 18, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github.
github Patch Available🟡 PoC Available

Stack buffer overflow and off-by-one writes in Zephyr HL7800 modem AT response handlers · Advisory · zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr · GitHub

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-9xc4-j5x8-v6jx
github_commit

commit ea91f9375677 (zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr)

Fix landed in zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr commit ea91f9375677 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/ea91f9375677aa4268e4044e096902dbe789f101

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 22× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-30 03:51 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-30 01:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-08-29 03:46 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-28 21:40 UTCEPSS rescore
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  6. 2026-08-27 14:24 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-26 17:13 UTCEG score recompute
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  9. 2026-08-25 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
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  12. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-22 14:11 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-21 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
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  18. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-08-19 13:24 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-18 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-08-18 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-08-18 19:43 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-12520?
CVE-2026-12520 is a medium vulnerability published on August 18, 2026. The Sierra Wireless HL7800 cellular modem driver (drivers/modem/vendorstandalone/hl7800.c, located at drivers/modem/hl7800.c in v4.4.0 and earlier) parses AT responses with roughly twenty handlers that call netbuflinearize(value, sizeof(value), *buf, 0, len) into a 128-byte stack buffer and then…
When was CVE-2026-12520 disclosed?
CVE-2026-12520 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 18, 2026, with the most recent update on August 26, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-12520 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-12520 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 89.6% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-12520?
CVE-2026-12520 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.4 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-12520?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-12520, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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