Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-0282 - Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS and IOS XE
Summary
A vulnerability in the TCP socket code of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. The vulnerability is due to a state condition between the socket state and the transmission control block (TCB) state. While this vulnerability potentially affects all TCP applications, the only affected application observed so far is the HTTP server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specific HTTP requests at a sustained rate to a reachable IP address of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family | CISCO |
NASL id | CISCO-SA-20190109-TCP.NASL |
description | According to its self-reported version, Cisco IOS XE Software is affected by following vulnerability - A vulnerability in the TCP socket code of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. The vulnerability is due to a state condition between the socket state and the transmission control block (TCB) state. While this vulnerability potentially affects all TCP applications, the only affected application observed so far is the HTTP server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specific HTTP requests at a sustained rate to a reachable IP address of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. (CVE-2018-0282) Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information |
last seen | 2020-05-09 |
modified | 2019-04-05 |
plugin id | 123789 |
published | 2019-04-05 |
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title | Cisco IOS XE Software TCP Denial of Service Vulnerability |