CVE-2021-26928 describes a vulnerability in BIRD versions up to 2.0.7, where the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation lacks password authentication for peers, potentially affecting products like Tigera and others utilizing BIRD. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) could allow a low-privileged attacker to achieve information disclosure or denial of service through route redirection, albeit with high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nic:bird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.