CVE-2026-44327 PUBLISHED

free5GC: NEF nnef-oam route group is unauthenticated; no-token requests reach the OAM handler

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 10

Product Status

Vendor free5gc
Product free5gc
Versions
  • Version < 4.2.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function CWE
  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization CWE