CVE-2008-2476
The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10 FTOS before E7.7.1.1, (5) Juniper JUNOS, and (6) Wind River VxWorks 5.x through 6.4 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB).
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 7.4% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2471)
- Published
- October 3, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2471 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- force10 / ftos
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd
- juniper / jnos
- netbsd / netbsd
- openbsd / openbsd
- openbsd / openbsd
- windriver / vxworks
- windriver / vxworks
- windriver / vxworks
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-013.txt.asc
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32112(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32116
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32117(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32133
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32406
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6.asc(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020968
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3467
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/472363(US Government Resource)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2RY7(US Government Resource)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2S68(US Government Resource)
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#015_ndp
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata43.html#006_ndp
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31529
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021109
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021132
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2750
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2751
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2752
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0633
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45601
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5670
- https://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.jsp?actionBtn=Search&txtAlertNumber=PSN-2008-09-036&viewMode=view
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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