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Multiple Cisco Products SNORT Ethernet Frame Decoder Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2021-1285

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Ethernet Frame Decoder of the Snort detection engine that could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of error conditions when processing Ethernet frames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious Ethernet frames through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust disk space on the affected device, which could result in administrators being unable to log in to the device or the device being unable to boot up correctly.Note: Manual intervention is required to recover from this situation. Customers are advised to contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to help recover a device in this condition.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
7.4
HIGH
Exploitability:2.9
Impact Score:4.0
EPSS Probability:2.69%
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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770 ↗Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products & Versions

Vendor Product Affected Versions
Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.12.3 (affected), Fuji-16.9.5 (affected), 16.12.4 (affected), 17.3.1a (affected), 16.6.6 (affected), 16.12.2 (affected), Fuji-16.9.6 (affected), Fuji-16.9.3 (affected), Denali-16.3.7 (affected), Fuji-16.9.2 (affected), Fuji-16.9.4 (affected), Everest-16.6.4 (affected), Everest-16.6.3 (affected), 16.6.5 (affected), Denali-16.3.5 (affected), 17.2.1r (affected), 17.1.1 (affected), Everest-16.6.2 (affected), 16.6.7a (affected), Denali-16.3.4 (affected), 16.6.1 (affected), Denali-16.3.9 (affected), Denali-16.3.3 (affected), 16.12.1a (affected), 17.3.2 (affected), Fuji-16.9.7 (affected)

References & Technical Advisories

No reference links found.

Threat Intelligence Signals

EPSS Score
2.687%

Identity & Timeline

StatusPUBLISHED
Assigning AuthorityCisco Systems, Inc. · Hosted Service · USA
Reserved2020-11-13T00:00:00
Published2024-11-18T15:41:50
Last Updated2024-11-18T16:22:54

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