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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-53551 EUVD-2026-51628GHSA-qj55-47fp-p62jGO-2026-6161

free5GC AUSF: null byte injection in supiOrSuci causes HTTP 500 internal service failure

Published Jul 31, 2026 · Updated Aug 3, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 1.4.5, the free5GC AUSF (Authentication Server Function) does not validate the supiOrSuci field in UE authentication requests. Null bytes (\x00) and other control characters pass through JSON parsing unchanged and are forwarded to the UDM in an unescaped URL path. This causes Go's net/url.Parse() to fail, returning HTTP 500 "System failure" and leaking internal stack traces. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger this at scale causing denial of service for all subscribers attempting authentication through the affected AUSF. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
free5gc free5gc < 4.2.2 —
free5gc ausf < 1.4.5 —

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
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/free5gc/ausf < 1.4.5 1.4.5 GHSA-qj55-47fp-p62j
Go github.com/free5gc/free5gc < 4.2.2 4.2.2 GHSA-qj55-47fp-p62j
Go github.com/free5gc/free5gc < 4.2.2+incompatible 4.2.2+incompatible GO-2026-6161

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