CVE-2023-47347· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in free5gc 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PFCP messages whose Sequence Number

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.74% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 54.1% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in free5gc 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PFCP messages whose Sequence Number is mutated to overflow bytes.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Nov 15, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.7% · 54th percentile
CWE: CWE-120

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
free5gc	free5gc	cpe:2.3:a:free5gc:free5gc

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

free5gc free5gc3.3.0

Same product

free5gc: all records

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-47346Nov 13, 2023 · Buffer Overflow vulnerability in free5gc 3.3.0, UPF 1.2.0, and SMF 1.2.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PFCP mess
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-47345Nov 15, 2023 · Buffer Overflow vulnerability in free5gc 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PFCP message with malformed PFCP He
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-47025Nov 16, 2023 · An issue in Free5gc v.3.3.0 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the free5gc-compose component.
22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2023-473450 days apartBuffer Overflow vulnerability in free5gc 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PFCP message with malformed PFCP He
30Monitor
CVE-2023-473462 days apartBuffer Overflow vulnerability in free5gc 3.3.0, UPF 1.2.0, and SMF 1.2.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PFCP mess
30Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

When data is copied, the source length is not compared with the size of the destination buffer. Excess data overwrites adjacent memory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-120 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1char buf[256];
2memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);

Fixed

1char buf[256];
2if (pkt->len > sizeof(buf)) {
3  return -EINVAL;
4}
5memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

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