Unauthenticated SGW-C crash via pool exhaustion
Published Jan 17, 2026 · Updated Jan 17, 2026
Denial of service in Open5GS 2.7.0 through 2.7.5 allows remote attackers to crash SGW-C with repeated GTPv2 Create Session Requests. The SGW-C transaction path keeps allocating UE/session contexts and response, holding, and peer timers until fixed pools return NULL, then fatal assertions abort the daemon. The trigger requires unauthenticated network access to the SGW-C GTP-C listener; exhaustion of either pool interrupts that gateway control-plane service.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Open5GS 2.7.0 through 2.7.5 allows remote attackers to crash SGW-C with repeated GTPv2 Create Session Requests. The SGW-C transaction path keeps allocating UE/session contexts and response, holding, and peer timers until fixed pools return NULL, then fatal assertions abort the daemon. The trigger requires unauthenticated network access to the SGW-C GTP-C listener; exhaustion of either pool interrupts that gateway control-plane service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-15532
- Published
- Jan 17, 2026
- Updated
- Jan 17, 2026
- Vendor
- Open5GS
- Product
- Open5GS
- Classifications
- CWE-400, CWE-404, T1499.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 17, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 17, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=2.7.0
- Affected versionversion=2.7.1
- Affected versionversion=2.7.2
- Affected versionversion=2.7.3
- Affected versionversion=2.7.4
- Affected versionversion=2.7.5
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- GTPv2 Create Session Request flood proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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