---
id: 4448
title: "Beware the Bad Neighbor: Analysis and PoC of the Windows IPv6 Router Advertisement Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898)"
cve: CVE-2020-16898
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/beware-the-bad-neighbor-analysis-and-poc-of-the-windows-ipv6-router-advertisement-vulnerability-cve-2020-16898.html"
published_at: "2020-10-15T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["rce", "windows", "exploitation", "ipv6", "buffer-overflow", "cve-2020-16898", "bad-neighbor"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4448"
lang: en
---

# Beware the Bad Neighbor: Analysis and PoC of the Windows IPv6 Router Advertisement Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898)

## Summary

Analysis and PoC of CVE-2020-16898 Bad Neighbor, a stack-based buffer overflow in the Windows IPv6 stack triggered by a malformed Router Advertisement, allowing potential remote code execution.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **CVE:** CVE-2020-16898
- **Published:** 2020-10-15T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/beware-the-bad-neighbor-analysis-and-poc-of-the-windows-ipv6-router-advertisement-vulnerability-cve-2020-16898.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4448