Cisco IOS XE Software Performance Routing Version 3 Denial of Service Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123795

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco IOS XE Software is affected by following vulnerability

- A vulnerability in Performance Routing Version 3 (PfRv3) of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the affected device to reload.The vulnerability is due to the processing of malformed smart probe packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted smart probe packets at the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to reload the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack on an affected system. (CVE-2019-1760)

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvj55896

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?250f85b5

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvj55896

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123795

File Name: cisco-sa-20190327-pfrv3.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 4/5/2019

Updated: 4/27/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1760

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xe

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS-XE/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1760

CWE: 20

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20190327-pfrv3

IAVA: 2019-A-0097-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvj55896