AMF crash via stale registration response
Published May 8, 2024 · Updated Mar 26, 2025
Denial of service in the AMF in Open5GS 2.6.6 and Open5GS 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to crash the service via UE registration. The gmm_state_authentication state machine treats a delayed UDM registration response for a released UE context as an impossible service and aborts. A gNB able to submit timed registrations for the same IMSI can trigger the race, terminating AMF service for connected users.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in the AMF in Open5GS 2.6.6 and Open5GS 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to crash the service via UE registration. The gmm_state_authentication state machine treats a delayed UDM registration response for a released UE context as an impossible service and aborts. A gNB able to submit timed registrations for the same IMSI can trigger the race, terminating AMF service for connected users.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-33382
- Published
- May 8, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 26, 2025
- Vendor
- Open5GS
- Product
- Open5GS
- Classifications
- CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 8, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 26, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.6.6
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Public exploit references
- Open5GS issue 2733 AMF crash reproducerfunctional · demonstrated
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