Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-12669 - Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS 15.2(3)E/15.2(3)E5/16.11.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A vulnerability in the RADIUS Change of Authorization (CoA) code of Cisco TrustSec, a feature within Cisco IOS XE Software, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of a malformed packet. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition on the affected device.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 3 | |
| Hardware | 3 |
Nessus
| NASL family | CISCO |
| NASL id | CISCO-SA-20190925-TSEC-IOSXE.NASL |
| description | A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the RADIUS Change of Authorization (CoA) code of Cisco TrustSec within Cisco IOS XE software due to improper handling of malformed packet. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via sending a malformed packet to an affected device, to cause the DoS condition on an affected device. Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application |
| last seen | 2020-05-09 |
| modified | 2019-10-15 |
| plugin id | 129943 |
| published | 2019-10-15 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129943 |
| title | Cisco IOS XE Software Change of Authorization DoS (cisco-sa-20190925-tsec) |