# CVE-2026-33064: free5GC UDM DataChangeNotification Procedure Panic Due to Nil Pointer Dereference

- Also known as: GHSA-7G27-V5WJ-JR75, GO-2026-4757
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.2
- Published: 2026-03-20 · Updated: 2026-03-20

## Affected

- free5gc: fixed in 1.4.2
- github.com/free5gc/udm (Go): fixed in 1.4.2

## Description

Free5GC is an open-source Linux Foundation project for 5th generation (5G) mobile core networks. Versions prior to 1.4.2 are vulnerable to procedure panic caused by Nil Pointer Dereference in the /sdm-subscriptions endpoint. A remote attacker can cause the UDM service to panic and crash by sending a crafted POST request to the /sdm-subscriptions endpoint with a malformed URL path containing path traversal sequences (../) and a large JSON payload. The DataChangeNotificationProcedure function in notifier.go attempts to access a nil pointer without proper validation, causing a complete service crash with "runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference". Exploitation would result in UDM functionality disruption until recovery by restart. This issue has been fixed in version 1.4.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on free5gc, github.com/free5gc/udm, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/security/advisories/GHSA-7g27-v5wj-jr75
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/781
- https://github.com/free5gc/udm/pull/78
- https://github.com/free5gc/udm/commit/65d7070f4bfd016864cbbaefbd506bbc85d2fa92

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