NVD security advisoryHigh
High advisory for CESNET ipfixcol2 2.3.0
CVE-2026-122130 · Reported 4 Nov 2026
Full advisory details, affected packages, severity context, and original source.
Affected technology
CESNET ipfixcol2 2.3.0Affected product
Advisory overview
CESNET ipfixcol2 2.3.0 before 2.9.0 contains an integer overflow vulnerability in the Forwarder output plugin that allows unauthenticated IPFIX exporters to overflow a heap buffer by wrapping uint16_t message length counters. Attackers can send near-65535-byte data sets and large templates to a collector forwarding over TCP to crash it and perform 2-byte writes to attacker-influenced addresses.
Related references
- https://github.com/CESNET/ipfixcol2
- https://github.com/CESNET/ipfixcol2/blob/v2.8.0/src/plugins/output/forwarder/src/Message.cpp#L134-L156
- https://github.com/CESNET/ipfixcol2/commit/ad206f6217257b06b139f1b2bce50d52f5bc6acb
- https://github.com/CESNET/ipfixcol2/releases/tag/v2.9.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cesnet-ipfixcol2-2.3.0-before-2.9.0-buffer-overflow-via-forwarder-output-plugin