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Critical · 10.0 CVE-2026-44329 EUVD-2026-32569GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3GO-2026-4995

free5GC: SMF UPI management interface lacks auth middleware; unauthenticated topology read/write requests reach handlers

Published May 27, 2026 · Updated May 28, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
free5gc free5gc < 4.2.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/free5gc/smf < 1.4.3 1.4.3 GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3

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