OpenFlow Handshake Vulnerability: Denial of Service and Unauthorized Access

CVE-2018-1000155 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

OpenFlow version 1.0 onwards contains a Denial of Service and Improper authorization vulnerability in OpenFlow handshake: The DPID (DataPath IDentifier) in the features_reply message are inherently trusted by the controller. that can result in Denial of Service, Unauthorized Access, Network Instability. This attack appear to be exploitable via Network connectivity: the attacker must first establish a transport connection with the OpenFlow controller and then initiate the OpenFlow handshake.

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