CVE-2015-8914 (GCVE-0-2015-8914)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-06-10 00:00
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