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CVE-2023-5366 — A flaw was found in Open vSwitch that allows ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packe

A flaw was found in Open vSwitch that allows ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packets between virtual machines to bypass OpenFlow rules. This issue may allow a local attacker to create specially crafted packets with a modified or spoofed target IP address field that can redirect ICM

CVSS
7.1 HIGH
EPSS
0.02% (top 95.00%)
CWE
CWE-345
Published
2023-10-06T17:43:34.376Z
Last modified
2025-02-13T17:20:09.786Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

A flaw was found in Open vSwitch that allows ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packets between virtual machines to bypass OpenFlow rules. This issue may allow a local attacker to create specially crafted packets with a modified or spoofed target IP address field that can redirect ICMPv6 traffic to arbitrary IP addresses.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / openvswitchunspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 7unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 7unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 7unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 7unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 7unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 7unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 8unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 8unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 8unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 8unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 8unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 8unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 8unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 9unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 9unspecified
Red HatFast Datapath for RHEL 9unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1unspecified
Red HatRed Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Virtualization 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Virtualization 4unspecified
FedoraFedoraunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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