CVE-2021-1285

Multiple Cisco Products SNORT Ethernet Frame Decoder Denial of Service Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.4 High
Published
Nov 18, 2024
Updated
Nov 18, 2024
Reserved
Nov 13, 2020

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Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Ethernet Frame Decoder of the Snort detection engine that could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of error conditions when processing Ethernet frames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious Ethernet frames through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust disk space on the affected device, which could result in administrators being unable to log in to the device or the device being unable to boot up correctly.Note: Manual intervention is required to recover from this situation. Customers are advised to contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to help recover a device in this condition.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.07.4 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:Xcisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine SoftwareCisco
  • 16.12.3Affected
  • Fuji-16.9.5Affected
  • 16.12.4Affected
  • 17.3.1aAffected
  • 16.6.6Affected
  • 16.12.2Affected
  • Fuji-16.9.6Affected
  • Fuji-16.9.3Affected
  • Denali-16.3.7Affected
  • Fuji-16.9.2Affected
  • Fuji-16.9.4Affected
  • Everest-16.6.4Affected
  • Everest-16.6.3Affected
  • 16.6.5Affected
  • Denali-16.3.5Affected
  • 17.2.1rAffected
  • 17.1.1Affected
  • Everest-16.6.2Affected
  • 16.6.7aAffected
  • Denali-16.3.4Affected
  • 16.6.1Affected
  • Denali-16.3.9Affected
  • Denali-16.3.3Affected
  • 16.12.1aAffected
  • 17.3.2Affected
  • and 1 more version

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