Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-44330
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's NEF mounts the nnef-pfdmanagement route group without inbound OAuth2/bearer-token authorization. A network attacker who can reach NEF on the SBI can use a forged or arbitrary bearer token (e.g. Authorization: Bearer not-a-real-token) to read PFD application data via GET /applications and GET /applications/{appID}, and to create or delete PFD change-notification subscriptions via POST /subscriptions and DELETE /subscriptions/{subID}. Same root cause as the other NEF SBI findings: the route group is mounted without any inbound auth middleware. Unlike the OAM and traffic-influence groups, nnef-pfdmanagement IS declared in the runtime ServiceList, so this is the production-intended path that operators expect to be protected by OAuth2 setting receive from NRF: true -- and it is not. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 15.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 10.0
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-44330
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:1.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:3.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc:4.1.0