CVE-2018-5378
Arbitrary data from the bgpd process may be sent over the network to a peer and/or bgpd may crash.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 74.2%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 does not properly bounds check the data sent with a NOTIFY to a peer, if an attribute length is invalid. Arbitrary data from the bgpd process may be sent over the network to a peer and/or bgpd may crash.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 74.20% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- quagga/quagga · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cret@cert.org
EPSS moved from 71.4% on 21 September 2026 to 74.2% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9095Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/940439Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://gogs.quagga.net/Quagga/quagga/src/master/doc/security/Quagga-2018-0543.txtVendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-17Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3573-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4115Third Party Advisory
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9095Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/940439Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://gogs.quagga.net/Quagga/quagga/src/master/doc/security/Quagga-2018-0543.txtVendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-17Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3573-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4115Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.