CVE-2026-18664 (GCVE-0-2026-18664)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 08:34 – Updated: 2026-08-26 14:47
VLAI
Title
Wrong interpretation of ACL ranges
Summary
When ranges are used for access control (i.e. of the form 1.2.3.4-1.2.3.25), because NSD wrongly compares the IP address with the range on little endian systems, IPs that were meant to be allowed may be denied, and, IPs that were meant to be denied access could be allowed. An IPv4 address is compared with IPv4 ranges as unsigned 32 bit numbers directly with the endianness of the host, but the values to compare are in network byte order (big-endian). With IPv6 addresses the comparison is done in 4 times a unsigned 32 bit number comparison, again with the endianness of the host where all values are actually in network bye order.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-26 14:33 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NLnet Labs NSD Affected: 3.0.0 , < 4.15.1 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-08-26 12:00
Credits
Qifan Zhang from Palo Alto Networks Claude and Ada Logics
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