Vulnerability · Published Feb 2, 2026 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2026-1739Free5GC pcf smpolicy.go HandleCreateSmPolicyRequest null pointer dereference
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity null pointer dereference in pcf from Free5GC. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability has been found in Free5GC pcf up to 1.4.1. This affects the function HandleCreateSmPolicyRequest of the file internal/sbi/processor/smpolicy.go. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is df535f5524314620715e842baf9723efbeb481a7. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-476, CWE-404 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
References
- VDB-343638 | Free5GC pcf smpolicy.go HandleCreateSmPolicyRequest null pointer dereference vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-343638 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #741194 | free5gc PCF v4.1.0 Denial of Service third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/803 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/free5gc/pcf/pull/62 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/803#issue-3815770007 exploit, issue-tracking
- https://github.com/free5gc/pcf/commit/df535f5524314620715e842baf9723efbeb481a7 patch
- https://github.com/free5gc/pcf/ product