CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2025-15539 — A vulnerability was determined in Open5GS up to 2.7.6

High CVSS 7.5

A vulnerability was determined in Open5GS up to 2.7.6. Impacted is the function sgwc_s11_handle_downlink_data_notification_ack of the file src/sgwc/s11-handler.c of the component sgwc. This manipulation causes denial of service. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Patch name: b4707272c1caf6a7d4dca905694ea55557a0545f. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch. The issue report is flagged as already-fixed.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-01-19
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Affected products

  • open5gs / open5gs

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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