Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14970

Title: Openvswitch RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14970.

CWE Category CWE-772

Published Date Oct 02, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14970: In lib/ofp-util.c in Open vSwitch (OvS) before 2.8.1, there are multiple memory leaks while parsing malformed OpenFlow group mod messages. NOTE: the vendor disputes the relevance of this report, stating "it can only be triggered by an OpenFlow controller, but OpenFlow controllers have much more direct and powerful ways to force Open vSwitch to allocate memory, such as by inserting flows into the flow table."

Impacted Vendors

openvswitch 1

Reference Links

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339085.html https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339086.html https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339085.html https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339086.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns