CVE-2026-44319free5GC: NEF crashes via logger.Fatal on PFD notification delivery failure (attacker-controlled notifyUri)
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.40%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 65% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
References tagged exploit2 references
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-rxrq-fv76-26pr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/924 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCexploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/free5gc/nefGHSA-rxrq-fv76-26pr (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-rxrq-fv76-26pr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/924 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCexploit
- https://github.com/free5gc/nef/pull/25 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/free5gc/nef/commit/f110517b1189801950b50668a593398687049074 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-32579 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rxrq-fv76-26pr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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