CVE-2015-8914
CRITICAL9.1EPSS 6.7%OpenStack Neutron allows remote attackers to bypass an intended ICMPv6-spoofing protection mechanism
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/25/2025
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/neutronfrom 0, < 2:8.1.2-1
- PyPI/neutronfrom 0, < 7.0.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
References (12)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8914
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8914
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/neutron
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1473
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1474
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1502933
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/300233
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/310648
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/310652
- WEBhttps://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-009.html
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/5
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/6