Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches Denial of Service Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software 5.0(1a))

CVE-2020-3175
HIGH 8.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.97 % · percentile 80 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the resource handling system of Cisco NX-OS Software for Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper resource usage control. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic to the management interface (mgmt0) of an affected device at very high rates. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause unexpected behaviors such as high CPU usage, process crashes, or even full system reboots of an affected device.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-664 — Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime
  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.8AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco NX-OS Software 5.0(1a)affected unspecified < n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD