Vulnerability CVE-2021-1352


Published: 2021-03-24

Description:
A vulnerability in the DECnet Phase IV and DECnet/OSI protocol processing of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of DECnet traffic that is received by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending DECnet traffic to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Type:

CWE-823

(Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset)

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.9/10
2.9/10
5.5/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Cisco -> Ios xe 

 References:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-decnet-dos-cuPWDkyL

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