CVE-2017-6780

CWE-399CWE-770 — Allocation without Limits4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Cisco Connected Grid Network Management SystemCisco IOT Field Network Director
Timeline
PublishedSep 7
Latest updateMay 13

Description

A vulnerability in the TCP throttling process for Cisco IoT Field Network Director (IoT-FND) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the system to consume additional memory, eventually forcing the device to restart, aka Memory Exhaustion. The vulnerability is due to insufficient rate-limiting protection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of TCP packets to a specific group of open listening ports on a targeted device. An exploit could allow the a…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶CVEListV5cisco_iot_field_network_directorCisco IoT Field Network Director

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-858q-mfhq-6h9q: A vulnerability in the TCP throttling process for Cisco IoT Field Network Director (IoT-FND) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-6780: A vulnerability in the TCP throttling process for Cisco IoT Field Network Director (IoT-FND) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause↗2017-09-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Cisco
Cisco IoT Field Network Director Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability↗2017-09-06
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CVE-2017-6780 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | A vulnerability in the TCP throttli | cvebase.io