PVLAN protocol pvlan.c authentication spoofing

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A vulnerability was found in PVLAN protocol (affected version not known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file pvlan.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The PVLAN protocol allows remote attackers to bypass network segmentation and spoof PVLAN traffic via a PVLAN message with a target MAC address that is set to a gateway router, which causes the packet to be sent to the router, where the source MAC is modified, aka "Modification of the MAC spoofing PVLAN jumping attack," as demonstrated by pvlan.c.

The bug was discovered 09/02/1999. The weakness was published 12/20/2005 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-4441 since 12/21/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2301 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (3294). Similar entries are available at 14816 and 27679.

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Class: Authentication spoofing
CWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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09/02/1999 🔍
12/20/2005 +2301 days 🔍
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03/12/2015 +3354 days 🔍
06/13/2019 +1554 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-4441 (🔍)
X-Force: 3294
Vulnerability Center: 10112 - [cisco-response-20051220-pvlan.shtml] PVLAN Spoofing via Modification of MAC, Medium
OSVDB: 22192 - Multiple vendor 802.1q VLAN implementations allow injected frames

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Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 06/13/2019 09:19
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (53), 06/13/2019 09:19 (3)
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