CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-1522 — A weakness has been identified in Open5GS up to 2.7.6

High CVSS 7.5

A weakness has been identified in Open5GS up to 2.7.6. This vulnerability affects the function sgwc_s5c_handle_modify_bearer_response of the file src/sgwc/s5c-handler.c of the component SGWC. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is called b19cf6a. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue. The issue report is flagged as already-fixed.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-01-28
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

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