Description
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Systemd 245. A specially crafted DHCP FORCERENEW packet can cause a server running the DHCP client to be vulnerable to a DHCP ACK spoofing attack. An attacker can forge a pair of FORCERENEW and DCHP ACK packets to reconfigure the server.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- adjacent network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-290CWE-290
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SYSTEMD_PROJECT
- Published
- 5/10/2021
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
systemd_project : systemdfedoraproject : fedoranetapp : active_iq_unified_managernetapp : cloud_backup
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