OpenDaylight Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) peer impersonation vulnerability

published 2024-09-15 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-46hr-3cq3-mcgp , EUVD-2024-2707

cvss: 9.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered in OpenDaylight Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) through 0.19.3. A rogue controller can join a cluster to impersonate an offline peer, even if this rogue controller does not possess the complete cluster configuration information.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-09-17)

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CNA	3.1	9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GitHub	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.opendaylight.aaa:aaa-artifacts	<=0.19.3	no fix listed

Affected products

opendaylight aaa

Classification

Weakness

CWE-520 .NET Misconfiguration: Use of Impersonation
CWE-285 Improper Authorization
CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net /browse/AAA-285
web, issue-tracking, vendor-advisory
doi.org /10.48550/arXiv.2408.16940
web, technical-description
docs.opendaylight.org /en/latest/release-notes/projects/aaa.html
web, release-notes
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46943
advisory
github.com /opendaylight/aaa
package

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary