The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10…

Description

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10 FTOS before E7.7.1.1, (5) Juniper JUNOS, and (6) Wind River VxWorks 5.x through 6.4 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB).

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

7.4% · top 5.5% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (23)

• 32406 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• multiple-vendors-ndp-dos(45601) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3467 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [4.2] 015: SECURITY FIX: October 2, 2008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSDx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2751 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1021109 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 1020968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 32133 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• VU#472363 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2RY7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 32116 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1021132 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.jsp?actionBtn=Search&txtAlertNumber=PSN-2008-09-036&viewMode=view (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2752 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 31529 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2S68 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FreeBSD-SA-08:10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
• [4.3] 006: SECURITY FIX: October 2, 2008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSDx_transferred
• 32112 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5670 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 32117 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-0633 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:05 UTC.