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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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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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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