CVE-2019-15989: A vulnerability in the implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) functionality in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote…

PriorityP347high8.6CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSCCNINAH

EPSS

1.31%

67.7th percentile

A vulnerability in the implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) functionality in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of a BGP update message that contains a specific BGP attribute. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending BGP update messages that include a specific, malformed attribute to be processed by an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the BGP process to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition. The Cisco implementation of BGP accepts incoming BGP traffic only from explicitly defined peers. To exploit this vulnerability, the malicious BGP update message would need to come from a configured, valid BGP peer or would need to be injected by the attacker into the victim’s BGP network on an existing, valid TCP connection to a BGP peer.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cisco	cisco_ios_xr_software	>= unspecified < n/a	n/a
cisco	ios_xr	—	—
cisco	ios_xr	—	—
cisco	ios_xr	—	—
cisco	ios_xr	—	—
cisco	ios_xr	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.6HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv3.08.6HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

vendor_cisco8.6HIGH

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