VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-9263

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.00%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-05-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OpenFlow role status message, there is a call to the abort() function for undefined role status reasons in the function `ofp_print_role_status_message` in `lib/ofp-print.c` that may be leveraged toward a remote DoS attack by a malicious switch.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Primary references