High

Vulnerability in RPKI manifest validation

  • Disclosed: 13.11.2020
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:22

A vulnerability in RPKI manifest validation exists when objects on the manifest are hidden, or expired objects are replayed. An attacker successfully exploiting this vulnerability could prevent new ROAs from being received or selectively hide ROAs, causing routes to become INVALID.

To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to perform a man in the middle attack on the TLS connection between the validator and an RRDP repository or perform a man in the middle attack against a rsync-only repository.

The update addresses the vulnerability by implementing validation methods from RFC 6486bis and enabling strict validation by default.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) net.ripe.rpki:rpki-validator-3 < 3.2-2020.10.28.23.06 3.2-2020.10.28.23.06

References

CVSS score -
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-20
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
net.ripe.rpki:rpki-validator-3
Disclosed
13.11.2020
Updated
11.10.2026 12:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-q76j-58cx-wp5v - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: net.ripe.rpki:rpki-validator-3

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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