Medium
Security advisory
Floodlight SDN Open Flow Controller v.1.2 has an issue that allows local hosts to build fake LLDP packets that allow specific clusters to be missed by Floodlight, which in turn leads to missed hosts inside and outside the cluster.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-51406
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 03:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Floodlight SDN Open Flow Controller v.1.2 has an issue that allows local hosts to build fake LLDP packets that allow specific clusters to be missed by Floodlight, which in turn leads to missed hosts inside and outside the cluster.
osv:CVE-2024-51406
Complete source record
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