CVE-2019-12659

Cisco IOS XE Software HTTP Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Sep 25, 2019
Updated: Nov 19, 2024
Reserved: Jun 4, 2019

Description

A vulnerability in the HTTP server code of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the HTTP server to crash. The vulnerability is due to a logical error in the logging mechanism. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by generating a high amount of long-lived connections to the HTTP service on the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the HTTP server to crash.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco IOS XE Software 3.2.0JACisco	before n/aAffected

References

20190925 Cisco IOS XE Software HTTP Server Denial of Service Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory

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