THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-2476
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2476

Ftos vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.4%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10 FTOS before E7.7.1.1, (5) Juniper JUNOS, and (6) Wind River VxWorks 5.x through 6.4 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB).
Affected vendor
Force10
Affected product
Ftos
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2008-10-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2476

  • Confirm whether Force10 Ftos is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2476.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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