cve-2025-23018
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-14 00:00
Modified
2025-02-12 20:31
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv6 tunneling (RFC 2473) do not require the validation or verification of the source of a network packet, allowing an attacker to spoof and route arbitrary traffic via an exposed network interface. This is a similar issue to CVE-2020-10136.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2473Technical Description
cve@mitre.orghttps://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2025-tunnels.pdfTechnical Description
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.top10vpn.com/research/tunneling-protocol-vulnerability/Technical Description
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