CVE-2025-60638: NSSF panic due to nil pointer dereference when expiry field is omitted in NSSAIAvailability POST

November 24, 2025 (updated November 25, 2025)

An issue was discovered in Free5GC v4.0.0 and v4.0.1 allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted POST request to the Nnssf_NSSAIAvailability API.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2hj-vpp9-6vm2
github.com/free5gc/free5gc
github.com/free5gc/free5gc/issues/704
github.com/free5gc/nssf
github.com/free5gc/nssf/commit/66fc727a894fa821fde14030346b18de69192204
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-60638

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