5G: Security Approaches and Attack Simulation

A Systematic Literature Mapping on the Security of 5G and Vertical Applications

“…Adversaries can also take advantage of the flexibility of orchestration, internal agents, authentication failure, physical downlink control channel, confidentiality failures in the communication channel, sensor networks vulnerabilities, cloud radio access networks vulnerabilities [Jeyakumar and Rajabhushanam, 2019], C-RAN vulnerabilities [Tian et al, 2017], EAP-TLS vulnerabilities [Zhang et al, 2020b], Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) vulnerabilities [Zhao et al, 2021d], machine learning models vulnerabilities [Suomalainen et al, 2020], software-defined mobile networks vulnerabilities, named data networks vulnerabilities [Bertino and Nabeel, 2018], MEC vulnerabilities, UE vulnerabilities [Amgoune and Mazri, 2018;Mahmoud et al, 2021], D2D communication vulnerabilities [Abd-Elrahman et al, 2015a,b], System Information Block (SIB) and RRC message parameters in 5G NR, edge security flaw, key sent over an insecure channel, security flaw in NS [Martini et al, 2020;Kotulski et al, 2017;Sattar et al, 2021;Cáceres-Hidalgo and Avila-Pesantez, 2021;Olimid and Nencioni, 2020], credential theft, devices without robust security mechanisms, 5G-AKA vulnerabilities [Basin et al, 2018;Pari et al, 2019], and security flaws in NFV and SDN [Ahmad et al, 2021[Ahmad et al, , 2019[Ahmad et al, , 2018Taheribakhsh et al, 2020]. Operating Systems (OS) using insecure protocols provide excessive privileges, IoT devices may have different protocols, lack processing robustness, and fail to control sensitive data privacy.…”