🛡️ CVE-2015-8914 — neutron

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-923 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenStack Neutron allows remote attackers to bypass an intended ICMPv6-spoofing protection mechanism

The IPTables firewall in OpenStack Neutron before 7.0.4 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.0 allows remote attackers to bypass an intended ICMPv6-spoofing protection mechanism and consequently cause a denial of service or intercept network traffic via a link-local source address.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2015-8914 is recorded against 1 package.

  • neutron (from 8.0.0 up to 8.1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 2 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
bugs.launchpad.net (Web)
github.com (Package)
review.openstack.org (Web)
review.openstack.org (Web)
review.openstack.org (Web)
security.openstack.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-923
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
neutron 8.0.0 8.1.1

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