free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's SMF mounts the UPI management route group without OAuth2/bearer-token authorization middleware. A network attacker who can reach SMF on the SBI can hit UPI endpoints with no Authorization header at all, and the requests reach the SMF business handlers. In the running Docker lab this was directly demonstrated for read (GET /upi/v1/upNodesLinks), write (POST /upi/v1/upNodesLinks with attacker-controlled UP-node and link payload), and delete (DELETE /upi/v1/upNodesLinks/{nodeID}) operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3 free5GC's SMF UPI management interface lacks auth middleware; unauthenticated topology read/write requests reach handlers
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Wed, 27 May 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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Description free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's SMF mounts the UPI management route group without OAuth2/bearer-token authorization middleware. A network attacker who can reach SMF on the SBI can hit UPI endpoints with no Authorization header at all, and the requests reach the SMF business handlers. In the running Docker lab this was directly demonstrated for read (GET /upi/v1/upNodesLinks), write (POST /upi/v1/upNodesLinks with attacker-controlled UP-node and link payload), and delete (DELETE /upi/v1/upNodesLinks/{nodeID}) operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.
Title free5GC: SMF UPI management interface lacks auth middleware; unauthenticated topology read/write requests reach handlers
Weaknesses CWE-306
CWE-862
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-27T15:38:35.080Z

Reserved: 2026-05-05T19:00:06.023Z

Link: CVE-2026-44329

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-27T17:16:38.490

Modified: 2026-05-27T17:16:38.490

Link: CVE-2026-44329

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