Routinator
CVE-2023-39916
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path traversal prevention
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| Impact | CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
NLnet Labs’ Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.12.1 as well as 0.14.0 up to and including 0.14.2 contains a possible path traversal vulnerability in the optional, off-by-default. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-35. NLnet Labs’ Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.12.1 as well as 0.14.0 up to and including 0.14.2 contains a possible path traversal vulnerability in the optional, off-by-default keep-rrdp-responses feature that allows users to store the content of responses received for RRDP requests. The location of these stored responses is constructed from the URL of the request. Due to insufficient sanitation of the URL, it is possible for an attacker to craft a URL that results in the response being stored outside of the directory specified for it. Affected products include: Nlnetlabs Routinator.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
NLnet Labs’ Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.12.1 as well as 0.14.0 up to and including 0.14.2 contains a possible path traversal vulnerability in the optional, off-by-default keep-rrdp-responses feature that allows users to store the content of responses received for RRDP requests. The location of these stored responses is constructed from the URL of the request. Due to insufficient sanitation of the URL, it is possible for an attacker to craft a URL that results in the response being stored outside of the directory specified for it.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
More in Routinator
View allAn issue was discovered in NLnet Labs Routinator 0.1.0 through 0.7.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.4), this vulnerability
Denial of service in NLnet Labs Routinator allows remote attackers to crash the RPKI validator by serving a crafted Docu
Denial of service in NLnet Labs Routinator allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the daemon by opening a larg
Path traversal in NLnet Labs Routinator allows remote attackers to escape the rsync cache directory by supplying rsync U
Denial of service in NLnet Labs Routinator (an RPKI Relying Party software) allows remote attackers to crash the daemon
Routinator, NLnet Labs' RPKI relying party validator, mishandles RRDP notification files by accepting delta entries with
Routinator, NLnet Labs' RPKI relying-party validator, can be driven into memory exhaustion by an AS range in RPKI data w
Routinator exits when it encounters an RRDP-delivered rsync URI whose path cannot be stored on disk, producing a denial
Routinator, NLnet Labs' RPKI relying-party validator, can be hung or terminated by a CRL fetched from the repository hie
Due to a mistake in error checking, Routinator will terminate when an incoming RTR connection is reset by the peer too q
NLnet Labs' Routinator up to and including version 0.12.1 may crash when trying to parse certain malformed RPKI objects.
In NLnet Labs Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.11.2, due to a mistake in error handling, data in RRDP snapshot and
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