High severity · published Mar 20, 2026
CVE-2026-33064
free5GC UDM DataChangeNotification Procedure Panic Due to Nil Pointer Dereference
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
free5gc · free5gc
< 1.4.2 · source: vendor
UD
Udm · Free5gc
before 1.4.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33064
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33064
Exploit
https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/781
Patch
https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-7g27-v5wj-jr75
Patch
https://github.com/free5gc/udm/commit/65d7070f4bfd016864cbbaefbd506bbc85d2fa92
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/free5gc/udm/pull/78
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