CVE-2026-44325
The parsed *models.PlmnId is then assigned with reflect.Value.Set() to whichever field name the attacker put in the form body, which panics whenever the destination field's real type is incompatible (slice, different struct, primitive).
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.39%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's NRF root SBI endpoint POST /oauth2/token contains a parser-level type-confusion bug family. The handler in NFs/nrf/internal/sbi/api_accesstoken.go reflects over models.NrfAccessTokenAccessTokenReq, special-cases only plain string and NrfNfManagementNfType fields, and treats every other field as if it were a single models.PlmnId. The parsed *models.PlmnId is then assigned with reflect.Value.Set() to whichever field name the attacker put in the form body, which panics whenever the destination field's real type is incompatible (slice, different struct, primitive). Gin recovery converts each panic into HTTP 500, but the endpoint remains remotely panicable from a single unauthenticated form-encoded request and is repeatedly triggerable. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.39% probability · 33th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20, CWE-755, CWE-843
- Affected
- free5gc/free5gc
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/918Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-f8qv-7x5w-qr48Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/free5gc/nrf/commit/f7bc77daa7425506af7569f2e61c2a210f5a0423Patch
- https://github.com/free5gc/nrf/pull/83Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-f8qv-7x5w-qr48Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.