CVE-2021-43172CWE-674

Infinite length chain of RRDP repositories

published November 9, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01104 · 65.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion
Published
2021-11-09T16:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 NOV 16:41Z
    Infinite length chain of RRDP repositories
    cvelistv5