Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-39949

Eprosima Fast Dds 2.6.0 – 2.6.5

Published
11 August 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.010 61th percentile
Risk Priority 59 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-39949 is a high-severity Reachable Assertion (CWE-617) vulnerability in Eprosima Fast Dds. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked in the top 39% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

eprosima Fast DDS is a C++ implementation of the Data Distribution Service standard of the Object Management Group. Prior to versions 2.9.1 and 2.6.5, improper validation of sequence numbers may lead to remotely reachable assertion failure. This can remotely crash…

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any Fast-DDS process. Versions 2.9.1 and 2.6.5 contain a patch for this issue.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-39534Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2023-39945Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2023-39948Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2025-62600Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2025-62599Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2025-62602Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2025-64098Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2025-62799Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2025-62603Same product: Debian Debian Linux
CVE-2023-39946Same product: Debian Debian Linux

Affected Assets

eprosima
fast dds
2.9.0 · 2.6.0 — 2.6.5
debian
debian linux
11.0, 12.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
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Secure SDLC practices directly prevent unsafe assertions from being coded in reachable paths.

DE.CM-09 partial match
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Runtime monitoring of software can detect assertion-triggered crashes as adverse events.

ID.RA-01 partial match
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Vulnerability identification processes can discover and record reachable-assertion flaws before deployment.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

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Security testing in development can detect reachable assertions before release, reducing the likelihood of exploitation.

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Secure development lifecycle mandates defensive coding and input validation that prevent reachable assertions from being triggered by untrusted data.

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Application security requirements can specify that assertions must not be reachable from attacker-controlled inputs.

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Secure architecture principles discourage the use of assertions for runtime error handling that an attacker could exploit.

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Secure coding standards explicitly ban the use of assert() or equivalent statements that can be triggered by external input.

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