CVE-2025-24356CWE-405

UDP traffic amplification via fastd's fast reconnect feature

Medium · published January 27, 2025

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
51.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

fastd is a VPN daemon which tunnels IP packets and Ethernet frames over UDP. When receiving a data packet from an unknown IP address/port combination, fastd will assume that one of its connected peers has moved to a new address and initiate a reconnect by sending a handshake packet. This "fast reconnect" avoids having to wait for a session timeout (up to ~90s) until a new connection is established. Even a 1-byte UDP packet just containing the fastd packet type header can trigger a much larger handshake packet (~150 bytes of UDP payload). Including IPv4 and UDP headers, the resulting amplification factor is roughly 12-13. By sending data packets with a spoofed source address to fastd instances reachable on the internet, this amplification of UDP traffic might be used to facilitate a Distributed Denial of Service attack. This vulnerability is fixed in v23.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
EPSS
0.00680 · 51.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-405 · Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
Published
2025-01-27T17:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 JAN 17:31Z
    UDP traffic amplification via fastd's fast reconnect feature
    cvelistv5