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CVE-2008-2476

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
03/10/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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).

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:force10:ftos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:jnos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:windriver:vxworks:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:windriver:vxworks:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:windriver:vxworks:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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