CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-8120 — A flaw has been found in Open5GS up to 2.7.7

Medium CVSS 6.5

A flaw has been found in Open5GS up to 2.7.7. The affected element is the function nssf_nnrf_nsselection_handle_get_from_amf_or_vnssf of the file /src/nssf/nnssf-handler.c of the component NSSF. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-05-08
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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