vulnerability
Cisco NX-OS: CVE-2022-20823: Cisco NX-OS Software OSPFv3 Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2022-08-24 | 2022-08-26 | 2025-03-27 |
Description
A vulnerability in the OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3) feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incomplete input validation of specific OSPFv3 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious OSPFv3 link-state advertisement (LSA) to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the OSPFv3 process to crash and restart multiple times, causing the affected device to reload and resulting in a DoS condition. Note: The OSPFv3 feature is disabled by default. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to establish a full OSPFv3 neighbor state with an affected device. For more information about exploitation conditions, see the Details section of this advisory.
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