CVE-2025-24356

fastd is a VPN daemon which tunnels IP packets and Ethernet frames over UDP. When receiving a data packet from an unknown IP address/port combination, fastd will assume that one of its connected peers has moved to a new address and initiate a reconnect by sending a handshake packet. This "fast reconnect" avoids having to wait for a session timeout (up to ~90s) until a new connection is established. Even a 1-byte UDP packet just containing the fastd packet type header can trigger a much larger handshake packet (~150 bytes of UDP payload). Including IPv4 and UDP headers, the resulting amplification factor is roughly 12-13. By sending data packets with a spoofed source address to fastd instances reachable on the internet, this amplification of UDP traffic might be used to facilitate a Distributed Denial of Service attack. This vulnerability is fixed in v23.

• CWE-405

• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/commit/1f233bee76b722c0b3f9024f2c39c72e9f7e5843Patch
• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/commit/3940150e801d0c91460491bec32cbcc5bbc89d5fPatch
• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/commit/5f63fcfc18ae9cad023fa463b152d5e14192b5a8Patch
• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/commit/9df7e516378441d2d17b89f9db5c27c8312d8f12Patch
• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/commit/c1a07b3f2b9066c3713c68547da700b85d60f4f7Patch
• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/commit/ce1b79b12dbfa796743b5f3a50789ade965b7023Patch
• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/commit/d03a0a17347efb5293e42fde7d982781e90f14efPatch
• https://github.com/neocturne/fastd/security/advisories/GHSA-pggg-vpfv-4rcvMitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Jan 27, 2025

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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