CVE-2021-38598

Published: Aug 23, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-290

9.1CRITICAL

NVD MITRE

Description

OpenStack Neutron before 16.4.1, 17.x before 17.1.3, and 18.0.0 allows hardware address impersonation when the linuxbridge driver with ebtables-nft is used on a Netfilter-based platform. By sending carefully crafted packets, anyone in control of a server instance connected to the virtual switch can impersonate the hardware addresses of other systems on the network, resulting in denial of service or in some cases possibly interception of traffic intended for other destinations.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-290

Affected Products

openstack

oss-project·USaka openstack foundation

neutronOn-premNetwork Device

Cloud & SaaS / cloud-platform

PyPI

package-ecosystem

neutron

OSS Libraries

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

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References

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1938670

launchpad.net

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38598

nvd.nist.gov

https://github.com/openstack/neutron/commit/0a931391d8990f3e654b4bfda24ae4119c609bbf

github.com

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