Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to a8db4e0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate.
Impact
An attacker can use this to disable RPKI Origin Validation in a victim network (for example AS 13335 - Cloudflare) prior to launching a BGP hijack which during normal operations would be rejected as "RPKI invalid". Additionally, in certain deployments RTR session flapping in and of itself also could cause BGP routing churn, causing availability issues.
Patches
a8db4e0
https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/releases/tag/v1.3.0
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Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to a8db4e0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate.
Impact
An attacker can use this to disable RPKI Origin Validation in a victim network (for example AS 13335 - Cloudflare) prior to launching a BGP hijack which during normal operations would be rejected as "RPKI invalid". Additionally, in certain deployments RTR session flapping in and of itself also could cause BGP routing churn, causing availability issues.
Patches
a8db4e0
https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/releases/tag/v1.3.0
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: