CVE-2025-6952
Open5Gs ≤ 2.7.6
Raw vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XSummary
CVE-2025-6952 is a medium-severity Reachable Assertion (CWE-617) vulnerability in Open5Gs Open5Gs. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-11 (Error Handling) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-19611
Vulnerability Data
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Open5GS up to 2.7.5. This issue affects the function amf_state_operational of the file src/amf/amf-sm.c of the component AMF Service. The manipulation leads to reachable assertion. It is possible to…
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launch the attack on the local host. The identifier of the patch is 53e9e059ed96b940f7ddcd9a2b68cb512524d5db. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability enables denial of service by triggering a reachable assertion failure in the Open5GS AMF service during initialization via SIGTERM, causing application crash, which facilitates T1499.004 (Application or System Exploitation).
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly blocks malformed or unexpected AMF signaling input from reaching the assertion in amf_state_operational.
Replaces the reachable assert() with graceful error handling so the AMF service does not abort on invalid state transitions.
Process isolation limits the blast radius of an AMF crash to only the affected service rather than the entire Open5GS instance.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly prevent unsafe assertions from being coded in reachable paths.
Runtime monitoring of software can detect assertion-triggered crashes as adverse events.
Vulnerability identification processes can discover and record reachable-assertion flaws before deployment.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing in development can detect reachable assertions before release, reducing the likelihood of exploitation.
Secure development lifecycle mandates defensive coding and input validation that prevent reachable assertions from being triggered by untrusted data.
Application security requirements can specify that assertions must not be reachable from attacker-controlled inputs.
Secure architecture principles discourage the use of assertions for runtime error handling that an attacker could exploit.
Secure coding standards explicitly ban the use of assert() or equivalent statements that can be triggered by external input.