What is CVE-2018-12066?

CVE-2018-12066 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bird Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-06-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-12066?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Bird Project

CVE-2018-12066

BIRD Internet Routing Daemon before 1.6.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via BGP mask expressions in birdc.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (30.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Bird_project Bird
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-12066?: CVE-2018-12066 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bird Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-06-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-12066?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.