CVE-2021-43172

NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.2 happily processes a chain of RRDP repositories of infinite length causing it to never finish a validation run. In RPKI, a CA can choose the RRDP repository it wishes to publish its data in. By continuously generating a new child CA that only consists of another CA using a different RRDP repository, a malicious CA can create a chain of CAs of de-facto infinite length. Routinator prior to version 0.10.2 did not contain a limit on the length of such a chain and will therefore continue to process this chain forever. As a result, the validation run will never finish, leading to Routinator continuing to serve the old data set or, if in the initial validation run directly after starting, never serve any data at all.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:nlnetlabs:routinator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

25 Apr 2022, 18:06

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CWE CWE-674 CWE-835

12 Nov 2021, 20:42

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CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 5.0
v3 : 7.5
CWE CWE-674
CPE cpe:2.3:a:nlnetlabs:routinator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (MISC) https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/routinator/CVE-2021-43172_CVE-2021-43173_CVE-2021-43174.txt - (MISC) https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/routinator/CVE-2021-43172_CVE-2021-43173_CVE-2021-43174.txt - Vendor Advisory

09 Nov 2021, 17:17

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-11-09 17:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:09


NVD link : CVE-2021-43172

Mitre link : CVE-2021-43172

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-43172


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Products Affected

nlnetlabs

  • routinator
CWE
CWE-835

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion