What is CVE-2015-2923?

CVE-2015-2923 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.

How severe is CVE-2015-2923?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Freebsd

CVE-2015-2923

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in FreeBSD through 10.1 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.014 (69.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Freebsd
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-2923?: CVE-2015-2923 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.
How severe is CVE-2015-2923?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.