Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-10377

Title: Openvswitch Auth Bypass

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-10377.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date May 29, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.94%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-10377: In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.5.0, a malformed IP packet can cause the switch to read past the end of the packet buffer due to an unsigned integer underflow in `lib/flow.c` in the function `miniflow_extract`, permitting remote bypass of the access control list enforced by the switch.

Impacted Vendors

openvswitch 1

Reference Links

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-July/319503.html https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-July/319503.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns