High
Security advisory
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 MAC-spoofing protection mechanism and consequently cause a denial of service or intercept network traffic via (1) a crafted DHCP discovery message or (2) crafted non-IP traffic.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5363
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 MAC-spoofing protection mechanism and consequently cause a denial of service or intercept network traffic via (1) a crafted DHCP discovery message or (2) crafted non-IP traffic.
osv:CVE-2016-5363
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5363",
"method": "structured",
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"summary": "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 MAC-spoofing protection mechanism and consequently cause a denial of service or intercept network traffic via (1) a crafted DHCP discovery message or (2) crafted non-IP traffic.",
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"GHSA-9pp3-cvmq-9p22",
"PYSEC-2026-852"
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"metrics": [
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"versions": [
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"7.0.3",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:24.709823925Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1558658",
"https://review.openstack.org/#/c/299021/",
"https://review.openstack.org/#/c/299023/",
"https://review.openstack.org/#/c/299025/",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1473",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1474",
"https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-009.html"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 431203,
"published_at": "2016-06-17T15:59:04.32+00:00"
}