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Cisco XE: CVE-2017-6665: Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Autonomic Control Plane Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 7, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2019
Modified
Jan 5, 2024

Description

A vulnerability in the Autonomic Networking feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to reset the Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) of an affected system and view ACP packets that are transferred in clear text within an affected system, an Information Disclosure Vulnerability. More Information: CSCvd51214. Known Affected Releases: Denali-16.2.1 Denali-16.3.1.

Solution

cisco-xe-upgrade-latest
Title
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