8.7

CVE-2026-33064: free5GC UDM DataChangeNotification Procedure Panic Due to Nil Pointer Dereference

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-33064GHSA-7g27-v5wj-jr75GO-2026-4757
Published 20-03-2026Last modified 20-03-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-33064 is a high (CVSS 8.7) vulnerability in free5gc. EPSS estimates a 0.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
45/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.7/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.81%
0%100%
Low · +0.32 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1SUSE-SU-2026:1135-1

Timeline

  1. 20-03-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 20-03-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Free5GC is an open-source Linux Foundation project for 5th generation (5G) mobile core networks. Versions prior to 1.4.2 are vulnerable to procedure panic caused by Nil Pointer Dereference in the /sdm-subscriptions endpoint. A remote attacker can cause the UDM service to panic and crash by sending a crafted POST request to the /sdm-subscriptions endpoint with a malformed URL path containing path traversal sequences (../) and a large JSON payload. The DataChangeNotificationProcedure function in notifier.go attempts to access a nil pointer without proper validation, causing a complete service crash with "runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference". Exploitation would result in UDM functionality disruption until recovery by restart. This issue has been fixed in version 1.4.2.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.81%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

56%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.32 pp

From 0.49% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Free5Gc

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu157 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Free5gc2 products
Github.com/free5gc1 product
  • udm< 1.4.2

3 vendors · 160 products

References

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