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Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Denial of Service Vulnerability (NX-OS)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
CISCO
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.1
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
7 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
A vulnerability in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Platform Leaf Switches for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device.
Insight
Insight
The vulnerability is due to improper handling of a type of Layer 2 control plane traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted traffic to a host behind a leaf switch.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.