x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in github.com/free5gc/smf: GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3

[GoVulnBot]

Advisory GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3 references a vulnerability in the following Go modules:

Module
github.com/free5gc/smf

Description:

Summary

free5GC's SMF mounts the UPI management route group without OAuth2/bearer-token authorization middleware. A network attacker who can reach SMF on the SBI can hit UPI endpoints with no Authorization header at all, and the requests reach the SMF business handlers. In the running Docker lab this was directly demonstrated for read (GET /upi/v1/upNodesLinks), write (POST /upi/v1/upNodesLinks with attacker-controlled UP-node and link payload), and delete (DELETE /upi/v1/upNodesLinks/{nodeID}) operations.

The defect is route-group-scoped: there is no inbound auth middleware o...

References:

• ADVISORY: GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3
• ADVISORY: GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3
• FIX: free5gc/smf@e23ce97
• FIX: fix: add authorization check for UPI routes in newRouter function free5gc/smf#197
• REPORT: [Bugs] SMF UPI management interface lacks auth middleware: unauthenticated topology read/write requests reach handlers free5gc/free5gc#887

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id: GO-ID-PENDING
modules:
    - module: github.com/free5gc/smf
      versions:
        - fixed: 1.4.3
      vulnerable_at: 1.4.2
summary: |-
    free5GC's SMF UPI management interface lacks auth middleware; unauthenticated
    topology read/write requests reach handlers in github.com/free5gc/smf
cves:
    - CVE-2026-44329
ghsas:
    - GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3
references:
    - advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3
    - advisory: https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3
    - fix: https://github.com/free5gc/smf/commit/e23ce97565f285eb99eed153743c62bf4c767c6e
    - fix: https://github.com/free5gc/smf/pull/197
    - report: https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/887
source:
    id: GHSA-3258-qmv8-frp3
    created: 2026-05-09T00:01:10.136343529Z
review_status: UNREVIEWED