CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-8224 — A vulnerability was determined in Open5GS up to 2.7.7

High CVSS 7.5

A vulnerability was determined in Open5GS up to 2.7.7. Affected by this issue is the function pcf_sess_set_ipv6prefix of the file /src/pcf/context.c of the component PCF. Executing a manipulation of the argument SmPolicyContextData.ipv6AddressPrefix can lead to denial of service. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-05-10
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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