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Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure DoS (cisco-sa-20170726-anidos)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 131188
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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 a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the Autonomic Networking feature. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can exploit this by replaying captured packets to reset the Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) channel of an affected system in order to reset the ACP channel of an affected system, causing autonomic nodes of an affected system to reload and stop responding.Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
No fixes are available. For more information, see Cisco bug ID(s) CSCvd88936.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 131188
File Name: cisco-sa-20170726-anidos-iosxe.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 11/22/2019
Updated: 4/25/2023
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.1
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.1
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6663
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 6
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xe
Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS-XE/Version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2017
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-6663
BID: 99973
CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20170726-anidos
CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvd88936