CVE-2021-38598

unknown
Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2024-02-23
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

OpenStack Neutron before 16.4.1, 17.x before 17.1.3, and 18.0.0 allows hardware address impersonation when the linuxbridge driver with ebtables-nft is used on a Netfilter-based platform. By sending carefully crafted packets, anyone in control of a server instance connected to the virtual switch can impersonate the hardware addresses of other systems on the network, resulting in denial of service or in some cases possibly interception of traffic intended for other destinations.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-38598

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38598.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:18.1.0-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2:17.2.1-0+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2:18.1.0-2
debian debiansidfixed2:18.1.0-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2:18.1.0-2

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIneutron<16.4.116.4.1
python PyPIneutron>=17.0.0,<17.1.317.1.3
python PyPIneutron
python PyPIneutron>=18.0.0,<18.1.016.4.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.