THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2010-2949
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2010-2949

Quagga vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
bgpd in Quagga before 0.99.17 does not properly parse AS paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an unknown AS type in an AS path attribute in a BGP UPDATE message.
Affected vendor
Quagga
Affected product
Quagga
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2010-09-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2010-2949

  • Confirm whether Quagga Quagga is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-2949.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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