7.5
HIGH
CVE-2017-1000411
OpenDayLight OpenFlow Plugin DoS Flaw
Description

OpenFlow Plugin and OpenDayLight Controller versions Nitrogen, Carbon, Boron, Robert Varga, Anil Vishnoi contain a flaw when multiple 'expired' flows take up the memory resource of CONFIG DATASTORE which leads to CONTROLLER shutdown. If multiple different flows with 'idle-timeout' and 'hard-timeout' are sent to the Openflow Plugin REST API, the expired flows will eventually crash the controller once its resource allocations set with the JVM size are exceeded. Although the installed flows (with timeout set) are removed from network (and thus also from controller's operations DS), the expired entries are still present in CONFIG DS. The attack can originate both from NORTH or SOUTH. The above description is for a north bound attack. A south bound attack can originate when an attacker attempts a flow flooding attack and since flows come with timeouts, the attack is not successful. However, the attacker will now be successful in CONTROLLER overflow attack (resource consumption). Although, the network (actual flow tables) and operational DS are only (~)1% occupied, the controller requests for resource consumption. This happens because the installed flows get removed from the network upon timeout.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 31, 2018, 2:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 3, 2019, 12:03 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2017-1000411 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Opendaylight openflow
2 Opendaylight opendaylight
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/52 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102736 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-399 CWE-404
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 28, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102736 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102736 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/52 No Types Assigned http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/52 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-399
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:opendaylight:opendaylight:boron:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:opendaylight:opendaylight:carbon:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:opendaylight:opendaylight:nitrogen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:opendaylight:openflow:boron:*:*:*:*:opendaylight:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:opendaylight:openflow:carbon:*:*:*:*:opendaylight:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:opendaylight:openflow:nitrogen:*:*:*:*:opendaylight:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 02, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102736 [No Types Assigned]
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.08 }} 0.01%

score

0.31850

percentile

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