SB2018020808 - Denial of service in Cisco Prime Network
Published: February 8, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018020808
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0137)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the TCP throttling process of Cisco Prime Network due to insufficient rate limiting protection for TCP listening ports. A remote attacker can send a high rate of TCP SYN packets to the local IP address, cause the device to consume a high amount of memory and become slow, or to stop accepting new TCP connections to the application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.