Cisco IOS XR Software IPv6 Flood DoS (cisco-sa-xripv6-spJem78K)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 147893

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version, IOS-XR is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to the software incorrectly forwarding IPv6 packets that have an IPv6 node-local multicast group destination and are received on the management interfaces. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can exploit this, by connecting to the same network as the management interfaces and injecting IPv6 packets that have an IPv6 node-local multicast group address destination, to cause an IPv6 flood on the corresponding network, resulting in network degradation or a DoS condition.

Please see the included Cisco BID and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvv45504.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?57255a2d

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvv45504

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 147893

File Name: cisco-sa-xripv6-spJem78K-iosxr.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 3/19/2021

Updated: 1/9/2024

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1268

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xr

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, Host/Cisco/IOS-XR/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-1268

CWE: 1076

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-xripv6-spJem78K

IAVA: 2021-A-0062-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvv45504