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CVE-2008-2170 (GCVE-0-2008-2170)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-13 22:00 – Updated: 2025-04-03 13:48
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Century routers allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (dropped session) via crafted BGP UPDATE messages, leading to route flapping, possibly a related issue to CVE-2007-6372.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-03 13:46 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/929656 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
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