CVE-2023-23932 Specially crafted RTPS message may cause an OpenDDS application to crash
Attackers can crash OpenDDS applications by sending specially crafted RTPS messages, affecting systems exposed to untrusted network traffic.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-23932?
CVE-2023-23932 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in OpenDDS, published on 3 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
OpenDDS is an open source C++ implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS). OpenDDS applications that are exposed to untrusted RTPS network traffic may crash when parsing badly-formed input. This issue has been patched in version 3.23.1.
Weakness: CWE-248
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-23932?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Objectcomputing Opendds.
How do I fix CVE-2023-23932?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-23932 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2023-23932 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23932 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in OpenDDS
- CVE-2021-38447 OCI OpenDDS Secure Amplification
- CVE-2025-67111 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2023-52427 Denial of service in n/a
- CVE-2023-37915 Malformed PID_PROPERTY_LIST parameter in DATA submessage remotely crashes OpenDDS
- CVE-2021-38445 OCI OpenDDS Secure Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8wvq-25f5-f8h4.