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CVE-2017-9263
In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OpenFlow role status message, there is a call to the abort() function for undefined role…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.0%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OpenFlow role status message, there is a call to the abort() function for undefined role status reasons in the function `ofp_print_role_status_message` in `lib/ofp-print.c` that may be leveraged toward a remote DoS attack by a malicious switch.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- RHSA-2017:2698 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2727 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2692 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2553 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2418 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2648 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2665 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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