Mobile Threat Catalogue

VoLTE Data Injection

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Threat Category: VoLTE

ID: CEL-15

Threat Description: If an attacker is able to inject data into a VoLTE channel, they could increase charges on the handset owner for their billing cycle.

Threat Origin

Insecurity of Voice Solution VoLTE in LTE Mobile Networks 1

How Voice Call Technology Poses Security Threats in 4G LTE Networks 2

Exploit Examples

Not Applicable

CVE Examples

Not Applicable

Possible Countermeasures

References

  1. C.-Y. Li et al. “Insecurity of Voice Solution VoLTE in LTE Mobile Networks”, In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2015, pp. 316-327; http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2810103.2813618 [accessed 8/23/2016] ↩

  2. G.-H. Tu et al., “How Voice Call Technology Poses Security Threats in 4G LTE Networks”, in Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2015; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7346856 [accessed 8/1/2022] ↩