free5GC: SMF UPI DELETE /upi/v1/upNodesLinks/{ref} panics on AN-node deletion via nil UPF dereference; unauthenticated, state-mutating_CVE-2026-44328

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    "description": "free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's SMF mounts the UPI management route group without inbound OAuth2 middleware. On top of that, the DELETE /upi/v1/upNodesLinks/{upNodeRef} handler unconditionally dereferences upNode.UPF after the type-guarded async release, even though AN-typed nodes are constructed without a UPF object. As a result, a single unauthenticated DELETE /upi/v1/upNodesLinks/gNB1 request crashes the handler with a nil-pointer panic AND mutates the in-memory user-plane topology before panicking (the UpNodeDelete(upNodeRef) line runs first). This is an unauthenticated, state-mutating panic-DoS sink that an off-path network attacker can trigger by name against any AN entry. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.",
    "published": "2026-05-27T15:39:44.153Z",
    "modified": "2026-05-27T15:39:44.153Z",
    "type": "cve",
    "title": "free5GC: SMF UPI DELETE /upi/v1/upNodesLinks/{ref} panics on AN-node deletion via nil UPF dereference; unauthenticated, state-mutating",
    "source": "GitHub_M",
    "references": "https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-p9mg-74mg-cwwr\nhttps://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/905\nhttps://github.com/free5gc/smf/pull/199\nhttps://github.com/free5gc/smf/commit/b57bc48081c3d3a2f333d02eb78e4fd31a120deb",
    "id": "CVE-2026-44328",
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