CVE-2019-6472medium

CVE-2019-6472: medium-severity vulnerability in ISC Kea

A packet containing a malformed DUID can cause the kea-dhcp6 server to terminate

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.8%
A packet containing a malformed DUID can cause the Kea DHCPv6 server process (kea-dhcp6) to exit due to an assertion failure. Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.5.0, 1.6.0-beta1, and 1.6.0-beta2.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
ISC · Kea
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