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CVE-2025-23018

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-23018 describes a vulnerability in IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv6 tunneling (RFC 2473) within IETF IPv6 implementations, allowing attackers to spoof and route arbitrary traffic due to a lack of source validation. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a network attack vector with high attack complexity, potentially leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code, it has garnered some community discussion and media attention, indicating awareness of the issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ietf:ipv6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0103 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-23018Low

networkmanager: 4in6 and 6in6 protocols excessive trust

Jan 14, 2025

References

kb.cert.org / vuls/id/199397
datatracker.ietf.org / doc/html/rfc2473
Technical Description
papers.mathyvanhoef.com / usenix2025-tunnels.pdf
Technical Description
top10vpn.com / research/tunneling-protocol-vulnerability
Technical Description