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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-5378

Arbitrary data from the bgpd process may be sent over the network to a peer and/or bgpd may crash.

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 74.2%

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
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
quagga/quagga · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cret@cert.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.