Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Specially crafted RTPS message may cause an OpenDDS application to crash

Type: advisorySources: OSV

OpenDDS is an open source C++ implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS). OpenDDS applications that are exposed to untrusted RTPS network traffic may crash when parsing badly-formed input. This issue has been patched in version 3.23.1.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2023-23932
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 03:08 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Specially crafted RTPS message may cause an OpenDDS application to crash

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Feb 2023, 20:08 UTC

OpenDDS is an open source C++ implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS). OpenDDS applications that are exposed to untrusted RTPS network traffic may crash when parsing badly-formed input. This issue has been patched in version 3.23.1.

osv:CVE-2023-23932
Complete source record
{
  "id": "9a3da39fcf993a5728f699e41d35a0e97da2672a6419e6aceb6bfa133fcb2e99",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23932",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Specially crafted RTPS message may cause an OpenDDS application to crash",
    "summary": "OpenDDS is an open source C++ implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS). OpenDDS applications that are exposed to untrusted RTPS network traffic may crash when parsing badly-formed input. This issue has been patched in version 3.23.1.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-23932",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-23932",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-23932",
        "GHSA-8wvq-25f5-f8h4"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/opendds/opendds",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "e5d2e5c960bafb199b7c9bc4a837918115855b33"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.23.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StringRangeExpression"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "e5d2e5c960bafb199b7c9bc4a837918115855b33"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "DDS-3.23.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:objectcomputing:opendds:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.23.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "green-36",
            "DDS-3.23",
            "green-35",
            "vxworks-pkgs-2210",
            "DDS-3.22",
            "DDS-3.21",
            "DDS-3.20",
            "DDS-3.19",
            "DDS-3.16",
            "DDS-3.18",
            "DDS-3.18-pre1",
            "DDS-3.17-pre22",
            "DDS-3.17",
            "DDS-3.17-pre24",
            "DDS-3.17-pre23",
            "DDS-3.17-pre21",
            "DDS-3.17-pre20",
            "DDS-3.17-pre19",
            "DDS-3.17-pre18",
            "DDS-3.17-pre17",
            "DDS-3.17-pre16",
            "DDS-3.17-pre15",
            "DDS-3.17-pre14",
            "DDS-3.17-pre13",
            "DDS-3.17-pre7",
            "DDS-3.17-pre5",
            "DDS-3.17-pre4",
            "DDS-3.17-pre2",
            "DDS-3.17-pre1",
            "DDS-3.16-pre21",
            "DDS-3.15",
            "DDS-3.15-pre24",
            "DDS-3.15-pre23",
            "DDS-3.14",
            "DDS-3.15-pre22",
            "DDS-3.15-pre21",
            "DDS-3.15-pre20",
            "DDS-3.15-pre18",
            "DDS-3.15-pre19",
            "DDS-3.15-pre17",
            "DDS-3.15-pre16",
            "DDS-3.15-pre13",
            "DDS-3.15-pre14",
            "DDS-3.15-pre15",
            "DDS-3.15-pre12",
            "DDS-3.15-pre11",
            "DDS-3.15-pre10",
            "DDS-3.15-pre9",
            "DDS-3.15-pre8",
            "DDS-3.15-pre7",
            "DDS-3.15-pre6",
            "DDS-3.15-pre5",
            "DDS-3.15-pre4",
            "DDS-3.15-pre3",
            "DDS-3.15-pre2",
            "DDS-3.15-pre1",
            "DDS-3.14-pre5",
            "DDS-3.14-pre4",
            "DDS-3.14-pre3",
            "DDS-3.14-pre2",
            "DDS-3.14-pre1",
            "DDS-3.13",
            "DDS-3.10",
            "DDS-3.12",
            "DDS-3.9",
            "DDS-3.8",
            "DDS-3.7"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-23932.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.819901037Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/OpenDDS/OpenDDS/releases/tag/DDS-3.23.1",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/23xxx/CVE-2023-23932.json",
        "https://github.com/OpenDDS/OpenDDS/security/advisories/GHSA-8wvq-25f5-f8h4",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23932"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-248"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/23xxx/CVE-2023-23932.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-23932",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 499929,
  "published_at": "2023-02-03T20:08:31.16+00:00"
}