CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-23018
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-940
Description
IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv6 tunneling (RFC 2473) do not require the validation or verification of the source of a network packet, allowing an attacker to spoof and route arbitrary traffic via an exposed network interface. This is a similar issue to CVE-2020-10136.
Affected configurations
• ietf ipv6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-940 Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel weakness
References
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2473 Technical Description
- https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2025-tunnels.pdf Technical Description
- https://www.top10vpn.com/research/tunneling-protocol-vulnerability/ Technical Description
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/199397 www.kb.cert.org