5Ghoul: Unleashing Chaos on 5G Edge Devices via Stateful Multi-Layer Fuzzing (IEEE TDSC 2025)

Jun 23, 2025·
Matheus E. Garbelini
,
Zewen Shang
,
Shijie Luo
,
Sudipta Chattopadhyay
,
Sumei Sun
,
Ernest Kurniawan
· 0 min read
Abstract
5GHOUL is a stateful, multi-layer fuzzing framework for discovering and reproducing security vulnerabilities in commercial 5G user equipment. It controls packets down to the data-link layer and guides tests using protocol state, uncovering vulnerabilities in commercial smartphones and modems.
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 6230–6247 (2025)