Cisco ANI Configuration Overwrite DoS (CSCup62167)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83782

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Synopsis

The remote device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The remote Cisco device is affected by a vulnerability in the Autonomic Networking Infrastructure (ANI) due to insufficient validation of received Autonomic Networking (AN) messages. A remote, unauthenticated attacker, by sending specially crafted AN messages, can exploit this to overwrite configuration settings, resulting in a denial of service condition in a limited set of router services.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCup62167.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83782

File Name: cisco-sn-CVE-2015-0669-ios.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 5/22/2015

Updated: 12/1/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0669

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0669

BID: 73245

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCup62167

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