CVE-2023-3748

LOW

FRRouting < 8.5 - Denial of Service via Malformed Babeld Unicast Hello Message

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in FRRouting when parsing certain babeld unicast hello messages that are intended to be ignored. This issue may allow an attacker to send specially crafted hello messages with the unicast flag set, the interval field set to 0, or any TLV that contains a sub-TLV with the Mandatory flag set to enter an infinite loop and cause a denial of service.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3748
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223668

Scores

CVSS v3 3.5
EPSS 0.0066
EPSS Percentile 46.6%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (1)
frrouting/frrouting < 8.5
Published Jul 24, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026