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CVE-2017-9263

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 1.00%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-05-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. It may be remotely exploitable.

CVE
CVE-2017-9263
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
1.00%

Original NVD 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.

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