CVE-2021-34697Improper Initialization in Cisco IOS XE

Severity
8.6HIGHNVD
CNA5.8
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 23
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A vulnerability in the Protection Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks to or through the affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect programming of the half-opened connections limit, TCP SYN flood limit, or TCP SYN cookie features when the features are configured in vulnerable releases of Cisco IOS XE Software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabili

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDcisco/ios_xe17.3.117.3.3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7jmp-v8mh-4f8r: A vulnerability in the Protection Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remot2022-05-24
CVEList
Cisco IOS XE Software Protection Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Feature Vulnerability2021-09-23

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Cisco
Cisco IOS XE Software Protection Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Feature Vulnerability2021-09-22
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