Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today

The problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it took down every part of Facebook's business...

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We dont yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other...

Juniper Junos OS DoS (JSA11185)

The version of Junos OS installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability as referenced in the JSA11185 advisory. - On Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved devices configured with BGP origin validation using Resource Public Key Infrastructure RPKI receipt of ...

Juniper Junos OS DoS (JSA11186)

The version of Junos OS installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability as referenced in the JSA11186 advisory. - On Juniper Networks Junos OS devices with Multipath or add-path feature enabled, processing a specific BGP UPDATE can lead to a routing process daemon RP...

Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol Resource Public Key Infrastructure DoS (cisco-sa-xrbgp-rpki-dos-gvmjqxbk)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco IOS XR is affected by a denial of service DoS vulnerability in the implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure RPKI feature due to incorrect handling of a specific RPKI to Router RTR Protocol packet. An unauthenticated, remote attacker ca...

CVE-2021-3761

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to 1.3.0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate. 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...

CVE-2021-3761

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to 1.3.0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate. 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...

CVE-2021-3761

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to 1.3.0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate. 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...

Input validation

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to 1.3.0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate. 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...

CVE-2021-3761 OctoRPKI lacks contextual out-of-bounds check when validating RPKI ROA maxLength values

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to 1.3.0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate. 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...

CVE-2021-3761

CVE-2021-3761 affects Cloudflare’s RPKI validator (OctoRPKI) prior to 1.3.0, where any CA issuer can trigger an invalid VRP MaxLength value, causing RTR sessions to terminate. This can disable RPKI Origin Validation in a victim network and potentially enable a subsequent BGP hijack; RTR session f...

CVE-2021-3761

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to 1.3.0 into emitting an invalid VRP "MaxLength" value, causing RTR sessions to terminate. 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...

Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol Resource Public Key Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure RPKI feature of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Border Gateway Protocol BGP process to crash, resulting in a denial of service DoS condition. This vulnerability is du...

GHSA-C8XP-8MF3-62H9 OctoRPKI lacks contextual out-of-bounds check when validating RPKI ROA maxLength values

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/commit/a8db4e009ef217484598ba1fd1c595b54e0f6422 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 vict...

OctoRPKI lacks contextual out-of-bounds check when validating RPKI ROA maxLength values

Any CA issuer in the RPKI can trick OctoRPKI prior to https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/commit/a8db4e009ef217484598ba1fd1c595b54e0f6422 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 vict...

The 4-phase approach smart companies take to mitigate DDoS attacks

Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have been a significant feature of the cyber threat landscape over the past two decades. The 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report reveals that attacks today are constantly evolving in complexity, volume, size, and frequency. The only constant in DDoS attack...

Software-Defined Networking Concept Adoption at Akamai

Akamai engineering has adopted new technology concepts to enhance and expand routing capabilities at the edge. Previously, Akamai's traffic-steering capabilities were mainly focused on DNS-based routing. In this article, we would like to give you an in-depth look at how Akamai has embraced new...

BGP Routing Explained. How Border Gateway Protocol Works❓

What is BGP? BGP, fully known as Border Gateway Protocol is the postal help of the Internet. At the point when somebody drops a letter into a post box, the postal help measures that piece of mail and picks a quick, effective course to convey that letter to its beneficiary. Additionally, when...

Juniper Networks Junos OS Code Issue Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-53343)

Juniper Networks Junos OS is a network operating system from Juniper Networks, Inc. that is specific to the company's hardware devices. The operating system provides a secure programming interface and the Junos SDK. Junos OS is vulnerable to a code issue that stems from the use of a resource publ...

CVE-2021-0281

On Juniper Networks Junos OS devices configured with BGP origin validation using Resource Public Key Infrastructure RPKI receipt of a specific packet from the RPKI cache server may cause routing process daemon RPD to crash and restart, creating a Denial of Service DoS condition. Continued receipt...