Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12278 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Software

047910
CVSS 6.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
cisco
CWE-772
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-11-02
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to restart, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to a memory leak that occurs on an affected device after the device fails to deallocate a buffer that is used when certain MIBs are polled. An attacker who knows the SNMP Version 2 SNMP Read string or has valid SNMP Version 3 credentials for an affected device could repeatedly poll the affected MIB object IDs (OIDs) and consume available memory on the device. When memory is sufficiently depleted on the device, the device will restart, resulting in a DoS condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc71674.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Cisco
1
Hardware
Cisco
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • HTTP DoS
    An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.

Nessus

NASL familyCISCO
NASL idCISCO-SA-20171101-WIRELESS_LAN_CONTROLLER_WLC1_WLC2_WCL4.NASL
descriptionAccording to its self-reported version, the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) is affected by one or more vulnerabilities. Please see the included Cisco BIDs and the Cisco Security Advisory for more information.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
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published2017-11-08
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titleCisco Wireless LAN Controller Multiple Vulnerabilities

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