CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1000155
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
OpenFlow version 1.0 onwards contains a Denial of Service and Improper authorization vulnerability in OpenFlow handshake: The DPID (DataPath IDentifier) in the features_reply message are inherently trusted by the controller. that can result in Denial of Service, Unauthorized Access, Network Instability. This attack appear to be exploitable via Network connectivity: the attacker must first establish a transport connection with the OpenFlow controller and then initiate the OpenFlow handshake.
Affected configurations
• opennetworking openflow
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- http://users.sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/~hashkash/openflow/BrianOnosSecurityRequest.pdf Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://users.sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/~hashkash/openflow/BrianOnosSecurityRequest.pdf Mailing List, Third Party Advisory