CVE-2026-44327
free5GC: NEF nnef-oam route group is unauthenticated; no-token requests reach the OAM handler
CRITICAL 10.0EPSS 0.5%
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's NEF mounts the nnef-oam route group without inbound OAuth2/bearer-token authorization. A network attacker who can reach NEF on the SBI can hit the OAM route with no Authorization header at all and the handler returns 200 OK. The current OAM handler is a stub that returns null, but the structural defect is route-group-scoped: the entire OAM route group has no inbound auth middleware, so every future OAM operation added to this group inherits the missing auth boundary by default. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.
- Affected
- free5gc
- CVSS v3.1 GITHUB
- 10.0 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 44th percentile
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Updated
- 2026-05-28
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-cmpj-2x3g-m7g3
- free5gc/nef/pull/23
- free5gc/free5gc/issues/861