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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2020-3175)

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Cisco NX-OS: Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2020-3175)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/26/2020
Created
06/16/2020
Added
06/15/2020
Modified
03/06/2023

Description

A vulnerability in the resource handling system of Cisco NX-OS Software for Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper resource usage control. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic to the management interface (mgmt0) of an affected device at very high rates. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause unexpected behaviors such as high CPU usage, process crashes, or even full system reboots of an affected device.

Solution(s)

  • update-nxos

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