Lightweight Security for Private Networks: Real-World Evaluation of WireGuard

This paper explores WireGuard as a lightweight alternative to IPsec for securing the user plane as well as the control plane in an industrial Open RAN deployment at the Adtran Terafactory in Meiningen. We focus on a realistic scenario where external vendors access their hardware in our 5G factory...

Demo: Secure Edge Server for Network Slicing and Resource Allocation in Open RAN

Next-Generation Radio Access Networks NGRAN aim to support diverse vertical applications with strict security, latency, and Service-Level Agreement SLA requirements. These demands introduce challenges in securing the infrastructure, allocating resources dynamically, and enabling real-time...

Securing Open RAN: a Survey of Cryptographic Challenges and Emerging Solutions for 5G

The advent of Open Radio Access Networks O-RAN introduces modularity and flexibility into 5G deployments but also surfaces novel security challenges across disaggregated interfaces. This literature review synthesizes recent research across thirteen academic and industry sources, examining...

O-RAN RIC 安全漏洞

O-RAN RIC is a RIC application from O-RAN. A security vulnerability exists in O-RAN RIC I-Release e2mgr, which stems from a missing array size check in E2nodeConfigUpdateNotificationHandler...

Opening Critical Infrastructure: The Current State of Open RAN Security

The Open Radio Access Network ORAN architecture provides standardized interfaces and protocols to previously closed systems. However, our research on ORAN demonstrates the potential threat posed by malicious xApps that are capable of compromising the entire Ran Intelligent Controller RIC subsyste...

CVE-2023-40997

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in O-RAN Software Community ric-plt-lib-rmr v.4.9.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted packet...