7.5

CVE-2025-26488: infinera mtc-9 Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
Published 08-12-2025Last modified 08-12-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-26488 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in infinera mtc-9. EPSS estimates a 0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.38%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 08-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Infinera MTC-9 allows remote unauthenticated users to crash the service and cause a reboot of the appliance, thus causing a DoS condition, via crafted XML payloads.This issue affects MTC-9: from R22.1.1.0275 before R23.0.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.38%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

30%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.38% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.38%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Infinera1 product
  • mtc-9≥ R22.1.1.0275, < R23.0
Nokia1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

1 links