CWE-198Variant

Use of Incorrect Byte Ordering

Draft in the CWE catalog · 1 CVE mapped

1
CVEs mapped
8.7
Median CVSS
What it is

The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not account for byte ordering (e.g. big-endian and little-endian) when processing the input, causing an incorrect number or value to be used.

Recent examples
8.7cvss
CVE-2025-52980

Junos OS: SRX300 Series: rpd will crash upon receiving a specific, valid BGP UPDATE message

A Use of Incorrect Byte Ordering vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX300 Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). When a BGP update is received over an established BGP session which contains a specific, valid, optional, transitive path attribute, rpd will crash and restart. This issue affects eBGP and iBGP over IPv4 and IPv6. This issue affects: Junos OS: * 22.1 versions from 22.1R1 before 22.2R3-S4, * 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S3, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S2, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-198
Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft