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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2024-51406

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.

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CVE-2024-51406
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6 Nov 2026, 03:43 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2024-51406

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Nov 2024, 00:00 UTC

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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  "method": "structured",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.685892855Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/51xxx/CVE-2024-51406.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-51406",
        "https://github.com/floodlight/floodlight/issues/870",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 514519,
  "published_at": "2024-11-01T00:00:00+00:00"
}