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Cisco XE: CVE-2019-12663: Cisco IOS XE Software TrustSec Protected Access Credential Provisioning Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 25, 2019
Added
Feb 7, 2020
Modified
Jan 5, 2024

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco TrustSec (CTS) Protected Access Credential (PAC) provisioning module of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of attributes in RADIUS messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious RADIUS message to an affected device while the device is in a specific state.

Solution

cisco-xe-upgrade-latest
Title
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