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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switch Simple Network Management Protocol Polling Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2018-0299)

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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switch Simple Network Management Protocol Polling Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2018-0299)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/21/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/22/2018
Modified
03/06/2023

Description

A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) feature of Cisco NX-OS on the Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switch could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to unexpectedly reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to incomplete validation of an SNMP poll request for a specific MIB. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specific SNMP poll request to the targeted device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvg10442.

Solution(s)

  • update-nxos

References

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