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CVE-2026-44319

free5GC: NEF crashes via logger.Fatal on PFD notification delivery failure (attacker-controlled notifyUri) PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's NEF terminates the entire process when a stored PFD-subscription notifyUri cannot be reached. In PfdChangeNotifier.FlushNotifications(), the notifier calls NnefPFDmanagementNotify(...) and on any delivery error invokes logger.PFDManageLog.Fatal(err), which is os.Exit(1)-equivalent in Go. An attacker who can create a PFD subscription with an attacker-chosen notifyUri and then trigger a PFD change can deterministically kill NEF on the asynchronous delivery attempt -- the process exits with status 1, dropping NEF's entire SBI surface until restart. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
free5gc / free5gcaffected < 4.2.2

CWE

CWE-20, CWE-617, CWE-755

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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