CVE record · CVE-2023-3966

Openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.013 · 69th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 22 Feb 2024, 12:15 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given openvswitch
  • unaffected 3.1.0
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 Package name: openvswitch https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 Package name: openvswitch2.10 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 Package name: openvswitch2.11 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 Package name: openvswitch2.12 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 Package name: openvswitch2.13 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 Package name: openvswitch2.11 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 Package name: openvswitch2.12 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 Package name: openvswitch2.13 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 Package name: openvswitch2.15 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 Package name: openvswitch2.16 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 Package name: openvswitch2.17 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 Package name: openvswitch3.1 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 9 Package name: openvswitch2.17 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 9 Package name: openvswitch3.0 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 9 Package name: openvswitch3.1 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 9 Package name: openvswitch3.2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: openvswitch https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 Package name: openvswitch-ovn-kubernetes https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
RDO OpenStack RDO Package name: rdo-openvswitch https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Fedora Fedora Package name: openvswitch https://packages.fedoraproject.org/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-3966
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-248
Published
22 Feb 2024
Updated
13 Feb 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.013, the 69th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 22 Feb 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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