CVE-2026-122130
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
CESNET ipfixcol2 2.3.0 before 2.9.0 contains an integer overflow vulnerability in the Forwarder output plugin that allows unauthenticated IPFIX exporters to overflow a heap buffer by wrapping uint16_t message length counters. Attackers can send near-65535-byte data sets and large templates to a collector forwarding over TCP to crash it and perform 2-byte writes to attacker-influenced addresses.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.3
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-04 21:18:08.543000
Last modified
2026-11-04 21:18:08.543000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-11-04T21:18:08.543",
"lastModified": "2026-11-04T21:18:08.543",
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}
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"source": "[email protected]",
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"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/CESNET/ipfixcol2/blob/v2.8.0/src/plugins/output/forwarder/src/Message.cpp#L134-L156",
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