GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-3vj4-cvjp-482h OpenStack Neutron allows remote attackers to bypass an intended ICMPv6-spoofing protection mechanism
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2015-8914
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- neutron
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-923
- Reviewed
- 2025-04-14
Affected packages
• PyPI neutron: < 7.0.5 → fixed in 7.0.5
• PyPI neutron: >= 8.0.0, < 8.1.1 → fixed in 8.1.1
Description
The IPTables firewall in OpenStack Neutron before 7.0.4 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.0 allows remote attackers to bypass an intended ICMPv6-spoofing protection mechanism and consequently cause a denial of service or intercept network traffic via a link-local source address.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2015-8914 The IPTables firewall in OpenStack Neutron before 7.0.4 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.0 allows remote attackers to bypass an intended… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-923 Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8914 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1473 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1474 web
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1502933 web
- https://github.com/openstack/neutron package
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/300233 web
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/310648 web
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/310652 web
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-009.html web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/5 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/6 web