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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2015-8914)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2015-8914)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
433479	SCA: security update for neutron (GHSA-3vj4-cvjp-482h)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
433479	SCA: security update for neutron (GHSA-3vj4-cvjp-482h)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical
219469	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8914	Nessus	Misc.	critical

Detections

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CVE-2015-8914

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Tenable Plugins

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