CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-4988 — A security flaw has been discovered in Open5GS 2.7.6

Medium CVSS 5.9

A security flaw has been discovered in Open5GS 2.7.6. This issue affects the function smf_gx_cca_cb/smf_gy_cca_cb/smf_s6b of the component CCA Message Handler. The manipulation results in denial of service. The attack may be launched remotely. Attacks of this nature are highly complex. The exploitability is assessed as difficult. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.9 (3.1)
Published
2026-03-27
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Affected products

  • open5gs / open5gs / 2.7.6

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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