CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-8122 — A vulnerability was found in Open5GS up to 2.7.7

Medium CVSS 6.5

A vulnerability was found in Open5GS up to 2.7.7. This affects the function ogs_sbi_discovery_option_add_service_names in the library /lib/sbi/message.c of the component NSSF. The manipulation results in denial of service. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit has been made public and could 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

This catalog composition supplies bounded fallback guidance. Explicitly reviewed curated workflows load with the complete record below.

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

The detailed catalog view below loads this exact record, its source evidence, and the full seven-phase agentic change plan.