CVE-2015-6273

high

Description

Cisco IOS XE before 3.1.2S on ASR 1000 devices mishandles the automatic setup of Virtual Fragment Reassembly (VFR) by certain firewall and NAT components, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Embedded Services Processor crash) via crafted IP packets, aka Bug IDs CSCtf87624, CSCte93229, CSCtd19103, and CSCti63623.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033408

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=40690

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-08-29

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00963