Cisco IOS Hot Standby Routing Protocol Crafted UDP Packets Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17772

Synopsis

The remote device is affected by a security vulnerability.

Description

When Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) is not enabled, it is possible to cause a denial of service via randomly sized UDP packets to the HSRP port 1985.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Jun/33

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17772

File Name: cisco-20020606-hsrp.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 1/10/2012

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version, Settings/PCI_DSS

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1768

BID: 4948

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCdt64533