🛡️ CVE-2026-33282 — ella-core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Ella Core panics on malformed NGAP Location Report

Summary

Ella Core panics when processing a malformed NGAP LocationReport message with ue-presence-in-area-of-interest event type and omitting the optional UEPresenceInAreaOfInterestList IE.

Impact

An attacker able to send crafted NGAP messages to Ella Core can crash the process, causing service disruption for all connected subscribers. No authentication is required.

Fix

Added IE presence verification to NGAP message handling.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-33282 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2026-33282 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • ella-core (fixed in 1.6.0)
  • github.com/ellanetworks/core

Timeline and source

Published on 24 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-476
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ella-core — 1.6.0
github.com/ellanetworks/core — —

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