CVE-2020-3119

Cisco NX-OS Software Cisco Discovery Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Feb 5, 2020
Updated
Nov 15, 2024
Reserved
Dec 12, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol implementation for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a reload on an affected device. The vulnerability exists because the Cisco Discovery Protocol parser does not properly validate input for certain fields in a Cisco Discovery Protocol message. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious Cisco Discovery Protocol packet to an affected device. An successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a stack overflow, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges on an affected device. Cisco Discovery Protocol is a Layer 2 protocol. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be in the same broadcast domain as the affected device (Layer 2 adjacent).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.08.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Unified Computing System (Managed)Cisco
  • before 9.3(2)Affected

References

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